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Hi Rick, [Our support email system behaved funny, so I'm resending my reply in case you didn't see it.] > We have 3 machines running ldm for use in McIDAS-XCD (nps1, nps2 and > on-noaaport) > ldmd.conf and pqact.conf are identical in nps1/2 queue size on nps1 is 32G > and 500M on nps2. > ldm versions are different nps1 (ldm-6.13.11), nps2 (ldm-6.13.13) > I dumped ldmwatch to files overnight (see below). nps2 is seeing > duplicate lines. By "lines", do you mean "data products"? > Repercussion is McIDAS-XCD writes duplicate grids to the grib files. Depending on how much data Nps2 is receiving, its queue might be too small to reject duplicate data products. > Do you have gnuplot(1) installed and are you collecting metrics as described > here ? If so, then the command "ldmadmin plotmetrics" will show > you the time-series of the age of the oldest product in the queue. It's best > to keep this parameter larger than the "max_latency" parameter in > the LDM registry in order to avoid duplicate products. > The last machine is a bit different as it is only looking for GFS grid > coming in from CONDUIT and NGRID (ldmd.conf) > request CONDUIT|NGRID ".*.gfs*" idd.unidata.ucar.edu > request CONDUIT|NGRID ".*.GFS*" idd.unidata.ucar.edu > ldmadmin watch for nps1 and on-noaaport have comparable output from > ldmadmin watch. > Duplicate grids is one problem. Second problem is we are missing a lot > of 1 degree GFS grids on on-noaaport. I'll defer answering this issue to Tom. He's our data expert. Regards, Steve Emmerson Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: CZE-486853 Department: Support LDM Priority: Normal Status: Closed =================== NOTE: All email exchanges with Unidata User Support are recorded in the Unidata inquiry tracking system and then made publicly available through the web. If you do not want to have your interactions made available in this way, you must let us know in each email you send to us.