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Hi Samuel, re: > O.K. Just to let you know: > > I have tried to reduce some of our data processing, to reduce how far behind > shu's > processing times are, to eliminate gaps in the data we currently store. > Unfortunately > it seems as though there are still gaps in the GINIEAST/GE1KVIS (GOES-EAST > 1km VISUAL) > satellite imagery. OK. It may still be necessary to do some more tweaking of your processing (pqact) setup. > Overnight, shu hasn't had any significant "Behind" messages in ldmd.log(only > 1/2 second or so), > and pqmon -l- indicates the oldest queue entry is 2670 seconds. This sounds much better. > I have eliminated the ingesting of PR,AK, and HI imagery, and moved the > NNEXRAD file processing > to a separate file system. Unfortunately, this hasn't seemed to eliminate > all of our missing data. You may want to create a pqact.conf_nnexrad file that only contains the NNEXRAD processing. Then, remove NNEXRAD as one of the feedtypes in pqact.conf_mcidasB processing and add a new ldmd.conf 'exec' line to run a new 'pqact' instance for the NNEXRAD processing: change: exec "pqact -f FSL2|NLDN|NNEXRAD|UNIWISC|HDS|CONDUIT etc/pqact.conf_mcidasB" to: exec "pqact -f FSL2|NLDN|UNIWISC|HDS|CONDUIT etc/pqact.conf_mcidasB" exec "pqact -f NNEXRAD etc/pqact.conf_nnexrad" > Is there a way to prune down our data, to avoid processing data from outside > the lower 48 > United States? This may be possible in theory, but in practice it would be pretty much of a nightmare. As a first step, let's try moving the NNEXRAD processing into its own pqact invocation as I outlined above. If this doesn't do all that is needed, let's move the NIMAGE processing out of pqact.conf_mcidasA into its own pqact.conf_nimage file and add another invocation of pqact to ldmd.conf that just processes the NIMAGE data: change: exec "pqact -f IDS|DDPLUS|HRS|NGRID|FNEXRAD|NIMAGE etc/pqact.conf_mcidasA" to: exec "pqact -f IDS|DDPLUS|HRS|NGRID|FNEXRAD etc/pqact.conf_mcidasA" exec "pqact -f NIMAGE etc/pqact.conf_nimage" Cheers, Tom **************************************************************************** Unidata User Support UCAR Unidata Program (303) 497-8642 P.O. Box 3000 address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unidata HomePage http://www.unidata.ucar.edu **************************************************************************** Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: TTR-495389 Department: Support McIDAS Priority: Normal Status: Closed