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I would say that hourly is slight overkill for metadata download, especially since the metadata normally only changes once a day. My inclination would be for between two and four metadata downloads per day. The new metadata is normally published between 5 and 6pm on weekdays, changes at weekends are unusual. Sara Hopkins SDSS Support Team Andy Swiffin wrote: >>>> On 16/10/2009 at 10:49, in message <7710F55F0A6240208655D6B985DBD23B@HP>, Rod > Widdowson <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> To follow up from Steve, >> >> You might want to also check that your nightly download is still working >> (out of memory is a likely candidate). The IdP will cough on old metadata >> these days ever since validUntil was added to it. So if your metadata >> download started failing a week ago your IdP will start to fail now... > > Good point from Rod - > > I have > > $JAVACMD -Xmx128m ... > > im my "metadatatool" script and all seems OK here. > > Something I've been meaning to ask folks for a while - deep in the mists of time when I first deployed I just stuck the metadata download script into cron.hourly, i.e. we get a new copy every hour! Is that OTT, should I really only be getting it daily? > > Andy > > > > > > The University of Dundee is a registered Scottish charity, No: SC015096 > -- Sara Hopkins SDSS Support Team EDINA, University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.