And it is this initial indexing situation that I am currently dealing with.
I have been triggering this initial scan by clicking on the services for
the aggregated dataset. Is there another way to perform the initial
indexing of netCDF aggregations (like is done with GRIB Collections)
besides clicking on a service link?
Also, I assume that the scouring of NetcdfFileCache would not remove
this index file from cache/agg, correct? Otherwise users would be in
for a long wait each time they click on an aggregated service. According
to
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/thredds/current/tds/reference/ThreddsConfigXMLFile.html,
the cache/agg dir is only for joinExisting. I'm trying to use Union
right now.
-kevin.
On 10/25/13 12:20 PM, Michael McDonald wrote:
John et al,
Aggregations are not supposed to leave files open. If they are, thats a bug.
The number of open files should typically be less than 1000, no matter how big
your aggregations are. It is dependent on the file cache sizes, see:
We set our NetcdfFileCache to match what we set our ulimit max # of
open files to (1mil). The hope of this is that as many files as
possible are cached in memory by the server, for quicker catalog
scans/requests. We never even approach 1mil concurrently open files.
<NetcdfFileCache>
<minFiles>1000</minFiles>
<maxFiles>1000000</maxFiles>
<scour>24 hours</scour>
</NetcdfFileCache>
It was also my understanding that ALL of the files in a particular
dataset scan need to be touched/opened/checked before being folded
into an aggregation (this is upon initial scan for saving into the
cache/agg folder). After this initial indexing, the average # of open
files will drop off since queries are only picking/choosing a few
files from this catalog, but you still need to have all the proper
system limits bumped up in order for this initial scan/cache to ever
successfully complete in a timely fashion. correct/incorrect?
/mike
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