[webservices] continuous data

[Rich Karstens]

Hi John,

The data in our archive is generally stored in files comprised of all 
the channels of a station for a specific day.   Thus, there are 
advantages to requesting 'blocks' of exactly one day.  Another 
advantageous technique would be to request all channels for a particular 
station in  the same request.  All of this pretty much comes down to 
disk I/O, file seeks and parsing.

I'm sure we'd love to see any throughput numbers you come up with.

Hope that helps,

Rich


John D. West wrote:
> Hi.
>
> If I want to request continuous data via the web services, is there an 
> optimal block size (i.e., ~1 day) to request at a time?
>
> I overheard a bit of conversation on this at AGU, but didn't get the 
> complete story.
>
> Thanks!
>
>      -- John
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