On Mon, 30 Jul 2012, daryl herzmann wrote:
Gilbert,
On Mon, 30 Jul 2012, Gilbert Sebenste wrote:
Interesting. Sorry it has taken me so long to respond, but
I am gettign the feeds right on time. Blair, have you tried
something like this in your ldmd.conf:
exec "/home/ldm/bin/pqact -f NEXRAD2 -p BZIP2/K[A-D]
/home/ldm/etc/pqact.gempak_craft"
exec "/home/ldm/bin/pqact -f NEXRAD2 -p BZIP2/K[E-K]
/home/ldm/etc/pqact.gempak_craft"
exec "/home/ldm/bin/pqact -f NEXRAD2 -p BZIP2/K[L-R]
/home/ldm/etc/pqact.gempak_craft"
exec "/home/ldm/bin/pqact -f NEXRAD2 -p BZIP2/K[S-Z]
/home/ldm/etc/pqact.gempak_craft"
exec "/home/ldm/bin/pqact -f NEXRAD2 -p BZIP2/T[A-Z]
/home/ldm/etc/pqact.gempak_craft"
exec "/home/ldm/bin/pqact -f NEXRAD2 -p BZIP2/P[A-Z]
/home/ldm/etc/pqact.gempak_craft"
Steve Emmerson kindly informed me that this is not quite the proper thing to
do. Each pqact process should have an unique filename associated with it for
when it writes state information to disk. The files can be simple sym links
and it will 'trick' LDM just fine. So the recommendation is to simply:
cd /home/ldm/etc
ln -s pqact.gempak_craft pqact.gempak_craft.1
ln -s pqact.gempak_craft pqact.gempak_craft.2
ln -s pqact.gempak_craft pqact.gempak_craft.3
...etc...
Then in ldmd.conf
exec "/home/ldm/bin/pqact -f NEXRAD2 -p BZIP2/P[A-Z]
/home/ldm/etc/pqact.gempak_craft.1"
Also note with the above, that you would be missing the radars starting with
D,N, and R :) Here's what I use:
exec "pqact -p BZIP2/K[A-D] -f CRAFT /home/ldm/etc/pqact.CRAFT"
exec "pqact -p BZIP2/K[E-H] -f CRAFT /home/ldm/etc/pqact.CRAFT2"
exec "pqact -p BZIP2/K[I-K] -f CRAFT /home/ldm/etc/pqact.CRAFT3"
exec "pqact -p BZIP2/K[L-O] -f CRAFT /home/ldm/etc/pqact.CRAFT4"
exec "pqact -p BZIP2/K[P-R] -f CRAFT /home/ldm/etc/pqact.CRAFT5"
exec "pqact -p BZIP2/K[S-Z] -f CRAFT /home/ldm/etc/pqact.CRAFT6"
exec "pqact -p BZIP2/[A-J] -f CRAFT /home/ldm/etc/pqact.CRAFT7"
exec "pqact -p BZIP2/[L-Z] -f CRAFT /home/ldm/etc/pqact.CRAFT8"
The 2-8 files are sym links back to the mothership.
I haven't seen any load average changes/improvements since I've done
this...but that's just me, I guess. (shrug)
Gilbert
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