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ncks and memory problems

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2001-05-11
2013-10-17
  • Nobody/Anonymous

    Hello,

    I'm working in a computer center in France and I have installed the nco
    operators at IDRIS. I have a strange problem with the ncks operator and I need
    to have the advice of someone who know very well nco. Jan Polcher, has given to
    me your email to contact to you.

    The command ncks is failing with this error message on a SGI (Rhodes) :

    rhodes-rlll202 : ncks -F -d time,1,1 sst2_hanning.nc sst2.nc
    Bus error(coredump)

    this failure is not systematic, and on an other SGI (Gaya), the command is
    right, when I put the binary command of Gaya on Rhodes, the command fails, when
    I put the binary command of Rhodes on Gaya the command is ok. The limits seem
    to be the same on Rhodes and Gaya :

    rhodes-ssos555 : limit
    cputime      unlimited
    filesize     unlimited
    datasize     unlimited
    stacksize    65536 kbytes
    coredumpsize unlimited
    memoryuse    524288 kbytes
    descriptors  200
    vmemory      unlimited
    threads      1024

    But the problem with ncks and the file sst2_hanning.nc seems due to a
    difference between Gaya and Rhodes.... Maybe a problem of memory when ncks is
    processing big file could appear?

    I would like to have the advice from someone that knowns rather well the ncks
    command and (perhap's) have already seen this kind of problems ...

    Thank you for your attention

    Marc Guyon
    guyon@idris.fr

     
    • Charlie Zender

      Charlie Zender - 2001-05-11

      Send version info:
      ncks -r
      Run with debugging output, e.g.,
      ncks -D 5
      Try making the stacksize unlimited
      ulimit -Hs unlimited
      ulimit -Ss unlimited

       
    • Nobody/Anonymous

      thank you,

      I have to do the tests suggested...

      the ncks info :
      rhodes-ssos555 : ncks -r
      NCO netCDF Operators version 1.1.41 by Charlie Zender
      ncks version 1.14 (1999/10/18) "Son of Zot"
      Copyright 1995--1999 University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

      regards
      Marc
      Portions copyright 1999 Regents of the University of California
      Linked to netCDF library version 3.4, compiled Feb 21 2000 12:05:12
      NCO homepage URL is http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/cms/nco
      rhodes-ssos555 :

       
      • Charlie Zender

        Charlie Zender - 2001-05-16

        This version of NCO is too old for me to help you with. Maybe the problem will go away if you upgrade.

         

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