Hi Daryl ..
I just have the following in my pqact.conf
NEXRAD2
^L2-BZIP2/(....)/([0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-1][0-9][0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9][0-5][0-9])
FILE data/raw/level2/\1/\1_\2_\3
didn't know, (or read) about entries in the pq exec lines
and yes .. it has become pretty busy ..
-Jeff
Subject: Re: [ldm-users] NEXRAD3 & NEXRAD2
On Mon, 12 Apr 2010, Jeff Lake - Admin wrote:
I have been watching the server in my system that receives NEXRAD2 & 3
during our mini severe outbreak Easter Weekend it fell drastically behind
in storing NEXRAD2 (on the tune of 30-45 minutes) at that time it had 4gb
RAM on a 10Mbit port ..
Jeff,
Do you have your pqact split across multiple files? Each pqact process
can only take up 32 child processes, so if you have a busy system, pqact
will wait for "slots" to open up before it can start a new write or
process. So I do something like this in ldmd.conf
exec "pqact -p BZIP2/K[A-D] -f CRAFT etc/pqact.CRAFT"
exec "pqact -p BZIP2/K[E-H] -f CRAFT etc/pqact.CRAFT"
exec "pqact -p BZIP2/K[I-K] -f CRAFT etc/pqact.CRAFT"
exec "pqact -p BZIP2/K[L-O] -f CRAFT etc/pqact.CRAFT"
exec "pqact -p BZIP2/K[P-R] -f CRAFT etc/pqact.CRAFT"
exec "pqact -p BZIP2/K[S-Z] -f CRAFT etc/pqact.CRAFT"
exec "pqact -p BZIP2/[NTP] -f CRAFT etc/pqact.CRAFT"
Notice how the regex splits up the processing, eventhough I use the same
pqact config file in each.
daryl
