grads-2.0.a1 segmentation fault

[Arlindo da Silva]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Steven Weiss <sweiss at iafrica.com> wrote:

>  Hi Jennifer,
>
> 1. Actually I generate a number of different files and it crashes on
> different ones at different places, so the time step debug wont help.
> 2. Not sure what you mean by data type? Its a text or string thats its
> falling over on when trying to write to file.
> 3. I'm not familiar with 'limit coredumpsize unlimited'  where/how do I
> set this?
> 4. OK, will play with gdb to see what I can get out of it.
>

How close are you to the edge of available memory? Open a second window and
start the "top" command. As you run your script watch what happens to your
memory usage.
I have had cases of inconsistent coredumps when I was close to exhausting
the amount of available memory.

    Arlindo

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Arlindo da Silva
dasilva at alum.mit.edu
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