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Hi Gilbert! UQAM is now upgraded to 6.13.10...! No problem so far. Thanks! Christian On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 9:08 PM Gilbert Sebenste <gilbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Two hours after the release of LDM 6.13.8, I was checking on a server > in-house and did an ldmping to another server. It worked! But then I hit > CTRL-C, and I couldn't break out of it. > > Ruh roh. > > In an attempt to synchronize signals in the LDM, I had found a whoopsie. > LDM 6.13.10 fixes that bug. > > I have been using 6.13.10 for a day now, and I've been looking for any > bugs/weirdness. So far, so good. Everything works as intended. Sorry I > didn't catch that two hours earlier, folks. > > I know, at this point, you could be thinking: > > 1. Gilbert's finding all these boooooogs! It's not stable! > 2. OK, I'm tired of updating my LDM. Can't I go to the beach now? > > In reference to #1, 6.13.7 and later were far more stable than 6.13.6. > Having to manually kill a process from a program that doesn't often get > used doesn't make it unstable. And, the throughput improvement and the > memory usage improvements are major compared to 6.13.6. You don't have to > have partial feeds requiring multiple request lines to get the entire feed > timely anymore. Oh, and the security holes in 6.13.6 and earlier...patched. > Isn't THAT alone worth the upgrade? > > Yes, yes it is. So, the College of DuPage and AllisonHouse are all on > 6.13.10 with no issues noted (and I just found out with the next soon to be > released UNIDATA AWIPS update, LDM-6.3.10 will be included). Please, go for > it. Update it, you won't regret it! Especially if you have a newer > processor: 6.13.6 and earlier might not compile on them. And if you have a > NOAAport ingestor, this is a mandatory update if you want a reliable > ingest. This thing blows circles around LDM 6.13.6 and earlier, where you > can also very easily upgrade your GEMPAK tables as new grids/models come > out. Not to mention, it doesn't bog down, crash, or do the funky things it > used to do. All of that is long gone. I'm looking at you, National Weather > Service....I know the issues you have had with 6.13.6 and earlier on ingest > machines...this should take care of it, as it did for us at AllisnHouse and > at the College of DuPage. > > So there. Update, then head to Key West. After this winter, you earned it. > > Gilbert > > -- > ---- > > Gilbert Sebenste > Consulting Meteorologist > AllisonHouse, LLC > _______________________________________________ > NOTE: All exchanges posted to Unidata maintained email lists are > recorded in the Unidata inquiry tracking system and made publicly > available through the web. Users who post to any of the lists we > maintain are reminded to remove any personal information that they > do not want to be made public. > > > ldm-users mailing list > ldm-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > For list information or to unsubscribe, visit: > http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/mailing_lists/
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