MANY THANKS, ROY! That cleared up all the problems. I'm hugely relieved that
I and/or my disk weren't going haywire. :) OK, catching my breath... phew.
Cheers,
John Maurer
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Roy Mendelssohn
<Roy.Mendelssohn@xxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Hi John:
>
> We have run into this too, particularly when adding new datasets. Whenever
> we do, we always do the following and find it clears up the problem:
>
> 1. Delete all of $TOMCAT_HOME/content/thredds/cache/agg
>
> 2. Delete all of $TOMCAT_HOME/content/thredds/cache/ehcache
>
> not certain ehculprit - it looks like the ehcache might assosciate the agg
> cache with certain datasets, and if that gets changed the list gets out of
> whack, but that is a wild guess. What I do know is that when we have that
> problem, those two steps clear it up.
>
> The downside is that access to large aggregate datasets is slow the first
> time they are accessed.
>
> -Roy
>
> On May 19, 2011, at 2:24 PM, John Maurer wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> > I'm seeing some weird behavior today with one of our joinExisting NcML
> aggregations for high-frequency radio (HFR). The OPeNDAP page lists
> variables that are from a totally different dataset (e.g. HFR does not
> measure water temperature):
> http://oos.soest.hawaii.edu/thredds/idd/hfr.html?dataset=kokagg. I looked
> at "content/thredds/cache/agg/" at the aggregation cache file for the
> dataset (hioos-hfr-kokagg) and it confirms that it's strangely pulling files
> from 3 unrelated datasets: a glider, an NCOM global FMRC, and the HFR data.
> Since nothing has changed recently in my config file for the dataset and I
> haven't recently upgraded TDS, this has me worried about a possible disk
> problem from recent power outages? The three datasets are not subdirectories
> of each other, so I don't see how TDS can be lumping them together. Any
> ideas what could be causing this?
> >
> > In addition to the above, 5 of my FMRC's are suddenly inaccessible today
> as well and were recently working just fine. It would seem their file
> aggregations may have similarly gone haywire as well, but their cache files
> under "content/thredds/collection/" (right?) are binary (.jdb) so I can't
> confirm whether they're combining multiple datasets. The catalogs give an
> error in threddsServlet.log with the message:
> > at
> ucar.nc2.ft.fmrc.FmrcDataset.getNetcdfDataset2D(FmrcDataset.java:166)
> > at ucar.nc2.ft.fmrc.Fmrc.getDataset2D(Fmrc.java:183)
> >
> > What's the best way for me to clear all TDS caches? Is it safe to remove
> "content/thredds/cache/" entirely?, and then restart Tomcat/TDS? Will it get
> re-built then automatically after I access each dataset?
> >
> > I've copied the relevant agg and collection caches, config files, and
> threddsServlet.log to my anonymous ftp server at:
> >
> > ftp.soest.hawaii.edu
> > jmaurer/thredds/
> >
> > Thanks for your help!,
> > John Maurer
> > Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System (PacIOOS)
> > University of Hawaii
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