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Re: [thredds] Java heap problems with large ASCII downloads

Yes, but in reality it doesn't appear to work on even that big a setting. I believe some people have THREDDS working in 64-bit (see for example http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/mailing_lists/archives/thredds/2008-March/001008.html) , but we do not. Our experience is that is takes a reasonably larger amount of heap than the file size to deal with it.

Happy Thanksgiving Nathan,

-Roy

On Nov 27, 2008, at 10:01 AM, Nathan Potter wrote:



Isn't the JVM heap a capped at 2GB for 32-bit operating systems/JVM's?






On Nov 27, 2008, at 7:19 AM, Roy Mendelssohn wrote:

I do believe THREDDS does all f its work in memory, if so you have to
greatly increase the java hep settings.  We run at 1500Mb and still
run into this.  I  would be curious to know if even with a very large
heap size if file sof tha size can be successfully transferred.

-Roy

On Nov 27, 2008, at 7:11 AM, Heiko Klein wrote:

Hi,

I use thredds as opendap server for some large netcdf-files (CF-1.0,
size >  1.1GB). When selecting to download the whole file  with the
'Get
ASCII' or 'GET BINARY', thredds crashes with a 'Java heap error'.

I'm currently using a default memory setup, i.e. -Xmx512MB for tomcat. How much memory will I need to avoid this problem. Does DODS read the
whole file at once or variable after variable, or even slice after
slice? Or are there some adjustments I can make to reduce memory
consumption?

Best regards,

Heiko




Details:

DODServlet ERROR (anyExceptionHandler): java.lang.OutOfMemoryError:
Java
heap space
ReqState:
serverClassName:    'thredds.server.opendap.NcDODSServlet'
dataSet:            'XXXX.nc'
requestSuffix:      'ascii'
CE:                 ''
compressOK:          true
InitParameters:
 DebugOn: ''
 maxNetcdfFilesCached: '10'

java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
     at ucar.nc2.N3raf.readData(N3raf.java:77)
     at ucar.nc2.N3iosp.readData(N3iosp.java:159)
     at ucar.nc2.NetcdfFile.readData(NetcdfFile.java:1374)
     at ucar.nc2.Variable._read(Variable.java:923)
     at ucar.nc2.Variable.read(Variable.java:618)
     at thredds.server.opendap.NcSDArray.read(NcSDArray.java:102)
     at thredds.server.opendap.NcSDGrid.read(NcSDGrid.java:59)
     at opendap.servlet.AsciiWriter.writeAsc(AsciiWriter.java:95)
     at opendap.servlet.AsciiWriter.toASCII(AsciiWriter.java:56)
     at
opendap.servlet.AbstractServlet.doGetASC(AbstractServlet.java:1029)
     at opendap.servlet.AbstractServlet.doGet(AbstractServlet.java:
1630)
     at
thredds.server.opendap.NcDODSServlet.doGet(NcDODSServlet.java:269)
     at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:698)
     at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)
...



Thredds-Version:
Built-By: caron
Built-On: 2008-02-20 22:56:05
Implementation-Title: THREDDS Data Server
Implementation-Version: 3.16.33
Implementation-Vendor: UCAR/Unidata

Running on tomcat 6.0.16 with jdk.1.6.0_04 on debian 4.0.

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Roy Mendelssohn
Supervisory Operations Research Analyst
NOAA/NMFS
Environmental Research Division
Southwest Fisheries Science Center
1352 Lighthouse Avenue
Pacific Grove, CA 93950-2097

e-mail: Roy.Mendelssohn@xxxxxxxx (Note new e-mail address)
voice: (831)-648-9029
fax: (831)-648-8440
www: http://www.pfeg.noaa.gov/

"Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill."
"From those who have been given much, much will be expected"



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