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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=059150513-02022012><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2 face=Arial>Hello Stephen,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=059150513-02022012><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2 face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=059150513-02022012><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2 face=Arial>I don't think, to start off with, I'd fork too many
pages. 'Though that said I think keeping 'data issues' (new versions,
netcdf attributes etc) seperate from 'system issues' (authentication,
download problems) is a good idea. Will you have a clickable table of
contents - I think this is fairly common for FAQs isn't it. What does
anyone else think?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=059150513-02022012><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2 face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=059150513-02022012><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2 face=Arial>Do you think its a good idea to include a section on
'optimising wgets'? Or am I suggesting something daft.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=059150513-02022012><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2 face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=059150513-02022012><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2 face=Arial>Jamie</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=059150513-02022012><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2 face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=059150513-02022012><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2 face=Arial>(ps you'll be glad to hear I'll be off air this afternoon - so
less noise from me)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><B>From:</B> stephen.pascoe@stfc.ac.uk
[mailto:stephen.pascoe@stfc.ac.uk] <BR><B>Sent:</B> 02 February 2012
10:56<BR><B>To:</B> Kettleborough, Jamie; martin.juckes@stfc.ac.uk;
jma@cola.iges.org; go-essp-tech@ucar.edu;
sebastien.denvil@ipsl.jussieu.fr<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Go-essp-tech]
Progress and Problems with P2P<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Hi
Jamie,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">I've
just fired-off an email to Gavin Bell asking him to loosen the restrictions on
the esgf.org wiki so I can reorganise the FAQ content. At the moment we
have several disorganised FAQs. Mark Elkington suggested a CMIP5
Provider FAQ for provider-specific data issues.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Take
a look at http://esgf.org/wiki/CMIP5HelpDeskFAQ. I hope to migrate the
top section to it's own page soon and open-up write access. What would
be your suggestion of how to organise the FAQs into
sub-pages?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Stephen.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Consolas; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt">Stephen
Pascoe +44 (0)1235 445980<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Consolas; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt">Centre of
Environmental Data Archival<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Consolas; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt">STFC
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Oxford, Didcot OX11 0QX,
UK<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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go-essp-tech-bounces@ucar.edu [mailto:go-essp-tech-bounces@ucar.edu] <B>On
Behalf Of </B>Kettleborough, Jamie<BR><B>Sent:</B> 02 February 2012
10:52<BR><B>To:</B> Juckes, Martin (STFC,RAL,RALSP); jma@cola.iges.org;
go-essp-tech@ucar.edu; Sébastien Denvil<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Go-essp-tech]
Progress and Problems with P2P<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: blue; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Hello
Martin, Sebastien, Stephen,</SPAN><o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: blue; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: blue; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">is
there a wiki page some where that could gather these 'hints and tips on
optimising your wget downloads'? Maybe it's a section in the CMIP5
helpdesk FAQ?</SPAN><o:p></o:p></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: blue; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Should
it be made clear that the 'vanilla' wget scripts from either the Gateway or
P2P are general and not 'optimal' for any one location - and users should
tweek them depending on their own experiences?</SPAN><o:p></o:p></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: blue; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Jamie</SPAN><o:p></o:p></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US>I also found I was getting frequent file
corruptions on data transfers from Australia – and have got far better
success rate since adding a “--limit-rate=800k” flag to transfers from
China, Japan and Australia (but you may have better network links to these
nodes than us). <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal>I notice that those node seems to be far away from your
home location.<BR>May I suggest you to give those options to wget ; from our
experiences with synchro-data they appear to improve substantially the
success rate :<BR>wget --timeout=20 --tries=10<o:p></o:p></P>
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