Strange ldm/gempak behaviour

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• Subject: Strange ldm/gempak behaviour
• From: "Arthur A. Person" <person@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 12:22:14 -0400 (EDT)

Hi...

Thought I'd throw this out for comments...  I just fixed (I think) a
strange LDM/Gempak problem:  dcmetr was core dumping many times/minute,
yesterday's *sao.gem file was at the 4GB limit (actually, larger
4488229376 bytes...???) but today's was ~4.5M thus far.  I figured I would
stop/restart the ldm, but when I tried to stop it, one rpc and rtstats
wouldn't go down, so I had to kill them, remake the queues, and then
restart.  Oddly enough, I have a second ldm running on another system that
also decodes metars (who's files seemed okay size-wise) that, when I tried
to stop its ldm, it also hung similarly and I had to kill/rebuild/restart
it as well.

Anyone have any similar experience or could suggest a cause?  I don't
recall that I've ever seen anything quite like this before.

                                Thanks.

                                  Art.
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Arthur A. Person
Research Assistant, System Administrator
Penn State Department of Meteorology
email:  person@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, phone:  814-863-1563