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

What are your java settings when you launch Tomcat? Remember THREDDS does everything in memory. 

-Roy M.

On Jan 9, 2009, at 3:53 PM, Ken Tanaka wrote:


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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