Details
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Type:
RFC
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Status: Implemented
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Resolution: Done
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Component/s: DM
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Labels:None
Description
New estimates of the alert stream sizing have been developed. Jeff Kantor feels that LDM-151, which already has an estimate of the total alert data size per night, is an appropriate place to record the updated values. The edited text is available at https://github.com/lsst/LDM-151/pull/56 for now, soon to be merged to master and then uploaded to DocuShare. (I'm holding off a bit in case there are other LDM-151 updates that could be batched with this.)
Some of the expansion (from 600 to 800 GB/night) comes from changes to the DPDD, especially the 12 months of history, including non-detections, and larger postage stamps (up to 50x50). The variable part of the expansion (from 800 to 1200 GB/night) comes from potential Avro overhead. While I wasn't able to generate a complete alert packet in the short time I've devoted to this, I came up with up to 50% overhead based on figures that Maria had provided and a few small test cases. It is possible that we may find a way to shrink this, but it will be quite difficult to reduce it below the 800 GB figure.
I think that this RFC has run its course since it's not requesting approval for an update of LDM-151, it seems to be requesting that we at some point update LDM-151. Can we mark it as implemented based on
DM-16280being done and then when Kian-Tat Lim does the update to LDM-151 that would become another RFC?