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.* was Re: FSL2 feed?

Anne,
     I thought  .*  by itself was OK on a request line.
It was only when the .* is followed by something
(i.e. .*\.windprofiler) that caused performance problems.
(instead of requesting for example .*\.windprofiler
we should instead request \.windprofiler which should
yield the same result)
Is this not correct?
Thanks for clearing this up for me. On some feeds we do request
.* and I want to make sure we're not making inefficient requests...

BTW, our request line for FSL2 reads
request DDPLUS|IDS|FSL2  ^[^a-z]  idd.nrcc.cornell.edu PRIMARY
and fsl2 data seems to be flowing here.

David

> Robert,
> 
> I'm not familier with the FSL2 feed, nor have I been following this
> thread closely, but I can confirm that Bob's regular expression is what
> thelma is using to recieve the data:
> 
> request         FSL2 "^FSL\.NetCDF\.NOAAnet\.windprofiler\."    ...
> 
> ".*" should give you everything on that feed, so I don't know why you're
> not getting anything.  However, there's another issue wrt ".*" - 
> contrary to what one might think, it has been found to be extremely
> inefficient and costly.   So, from that perspective, I would advise
> using the expression above instead.
> 
> Anne
> 
> 
> Robert Mullenax wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > 
> > That's when my upstream site stopped receiving data as well (Penn State).
> > Can someone at Unidata confirm that the request in ldmd.conf
> > shouldn't be:
> > 
> > FSL2 ".*" ......
> > 
> > but what is shown below instead?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Robert Mullenax
> > 
> > > We made a change to the FSL2 FSL.NetCDF.NOAAnet.windprofiler
> > > (and RASS) data processing on 9/22 at 14:47Z that I had hoped
> > > would be transparent to y'all.
> > >
> > > The change was to stop generating the netCDF files from BUFR
> > > data sent from the FSL Demonstration Division (DD - the profiler
> > > group in FSL) and begin just passing along netCDF files directly
> > > from DD.
> > >
> > > The key pattern for these data has changed slightly, which
> > > might account for your not seeing them.  Namely, we have
> > > dropped trailing ".*" from the strings.  However, I do see
> > > that thelma and motherload are successfully requesting and
> > > receiving the data as:
> > >
> > >    FSL2  "^FSL\.NetCDF\.NOAAnet\.windprofiler\."
> > >
> > > I should also mention that it looks like the units in the netCDF
> > > files have changed slightly... sorry, I didn't catch that before
> > > we made the switch.  I will need to work with the DD folks
> > > to reconcile the differences.
> > >
> > > Please let me know if you have questions/concerns.
> > >
> > >       Bob Lipschutz
> > >       NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory
> > >       303-497-6636
> > >
> > >
> > > > > Robert Mullenax wrote:
> > > > > > We here at NSBF/NMSU stopped receiving data from the FSL2 feed on 
> > > > > > 22 Sept
> > > .
> > > > > > Is anyone else having this problem?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > > Robert Mullenax
> > > > > >
> > > > > Robert,
> > > > >
> > > > > I had word that they were doing some extended electrical work at FSL
> > > > > today. That might be the problem.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Thanks.   Yes I knew abou that (our main feed was affected also), but 
> > > > this ou
> > > tage
> > > > started before that.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Robert
> > > > >
> > > > > Jim
> > > > > --
> > > > > James P. Koermer                  E-Mail: koermer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > > > Professor of Meteorology          Office Phone: (603)535-2574
> > > > > Meteorology Program               Office Fax: (603)535-2723
> > > > > Plymouth State University       WWW: http://vortex.plymouth.edu/
> > > > > Plymouth, NH 03264
> > > > >
> > >
> > >
> 
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