On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Steven Weiss <<a href="mailto:sweiss@iafrica.com">sweiss@iafrica.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Hi Jennifer,</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">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.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">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.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">3. I'm not familiar with <font face="Times New Roman" size="3">'limit coredumpsize unlimited' where/how do
I set this?</font></font></div>
<div>4. OK, will play with gdb to see what I can get out of it.</div></div></blockquote></div><br clear="all">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. <br>
I have had cases of inconsistent coredumps when I was close to exhausting the amount of available memory. <br><br> Arlindo<br><br>-- <br>Arlindo da Silva<br><a href="mailto:dasilva@alum.mit.edu">dasilva@alum.mit.edu</a>