Segmentation faults in general.

[Kevin M Levey]

Dear Grads Users

This may or may not be related, but using GRADS version 1.94b compiled
on a 32-bit CENTOS 5 LINUX OS I've never encountered a single
segmentation problem. I recently compiled version 1.94b on a 64-bit
CENTOS 5 LINUX OS and have run into numerous "segmentation error"
occasions The versions I installed using RPMs were 32-bit little
endian running on a 64-bit OS.

I think that  this is related to a 32-bit version of GRADS not working
correctly in a 64-bit environment.

With more and more of us using 64-bit LINUX machines, a 64-bit version
would be greatly welcomed by the GRADS community. AND with
installation instructions to go with it.

Regards

Kevin M Levey, MSc in Oceans and Atmospheric Sciences (University of
Cape Town)
Director of Meteorological Operations
CustomWeather, Inc.
San Francisco, California, USA

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On May 1, 2008, at 05/01/08 - 12:05 PM, Matt Alonso wrote:

> Hi Arlindo,
>
> Thank you for taking a look at this.  As a reference I attached the
> script I am using to output the ASCII data.  I can contour/shade the
> data fine (animation works for me as well).  The issue comes in when
> writing the ASCII CSV file.  I spent all of a couple minutes
> tweaking the code so there could definitely be something wrong in
> there but nothing stands out in my mind.
>
> The box this is on runs Fedora Core 5 (it is ancient I know) and has
> 2 dual 3.0GHz Intel xeon cpus and 2GB of RAM.  Nothing seemed out of
> place with the memory usage when I was running the process.
>
> Let me know if I missed anything.
>
> Cheers,
> Matt
>
> On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Arlindo da Silva
> <dasilva at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Matt Alonso <matt.alonso at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> Was anyone ever able to find a solution to this issue?  I think I am
> experiencing a similar problem using gradsnc v1.9b4.  I have a 13MB
> netCDF file (samples can be found here, http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/db_search/DBListFiles.pl?did=34&tid=20349&vid=1246)
>  which contains Reanalysis rainfall rate data.
>
> I took one of these files, started gradsnc
>
> Config: v1.9.0-rc1 32-bit little-endian readline sdf/xdf netcdf lats
> athena printim
> Built Tue Mar 18 14:11:08 EDT 2008 for x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
>
> and entered this:
>
> ga-> sdfopen prate.sfc.gauss.2007.nc
> ga-> set t 1 365
> ga-> set gxout shaded
> ga-> d prate
>
> and I got a nice animation.  (I also repeated this with an i686
> build of 1.9.0-rc1). I did a top and didn't see any memory usage
> problem either (usually this happens with templates).
>
>   What is your platform?
>
>
>          Arlindo
>
> --
> Arlindo da Silva
> dasilva at alum.mit.edu
>
> <prate_data.gs>

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