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[thredds] Running out of memory on a joinExisting aggregation data set

Hi,

I'm encountering "java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space" errors in aggregating netcdf files. The messages are appearing in the tomcat5/content/thredds/logs/threddsServlet.log and the web page will return a web page showing

Error { code = -1; message = "Server Error on dataset sst-aerosol-nl-aggregation"; };

instead of the normal OPENDAP access page ( http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/thredds/dodsC/sst-aerosol-nl-aggregation.html ). This page usually returns normally for a few requests, but once the OutOfMemoryError occurs the service is down until I restart tomcat. I did try an upgrade to the latest THREDDS warfile, 3.16.48.0, but still see this error. The TDS is running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 3 (Taroon Update 9). The java.vm.version = 1.5.0_06-b05, and tomcat version is 5.5.17.

The files we are serving up are SST Aerosol products, with a Time coordinate, with a single time slice per file. The typical filesize is 3.6MB. We have quite a bit of metadata as Global Attributes in each, but I think we can abstract that out with an NcML wrapper file. Here is the wrapper file, which is in the same directory with the data files:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<netcdf xmlns="http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/namespaces/netcdf/ncml-2.2"; >
    <attribute name="myAttribute" value="NN-attribute" />
    <aggregation dimName="Time" type="joinExisting">
<scan location="/data1/thredds/sst/Aerosol_NN_test/" suffix=".nc" />
    </aggregation>

</netcdf>


And here is the portion of the catalog.xml that uses this aggregation:

<!-- Aerosol NN, joinExisting with ncml wrapper
-->
<dataset name="SST Aerosol Aggregation NOAA-18(N)" ID="SST-Aerosol-NN-Agg"
         urlPath="sst-aerosol-nn-aggregation">
  <metadata inherited="true">
    <serviceName>multiple</serviceName>
    <dataType>Grid</dataType>
  </metadata>
<netcdf xmlns="http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/namespaces/netcdf/ncml-2.2";
  location="/data1/thredds/sst/Aerosol_NN_test/Aerosol_NN_test.ncml" >
   </netcdf>

 </dataset>



Do you see any troubles with my configuration? Earlier posts to this list indicated that there should not be a problem with aggregating a large number of files. This particular aggregation is 245 files. I definitely get errors right away if I also set up separate but similar aggregation with 135 files in the same catalog.

Thanks for any suggestions,
Ken

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