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Hiya, There is a bug in perl 5.8.0 that doesn't have any code work around for the netCDF perl decoders. The decoders appear to be working ok then unsual behavior happens( cpu hog ) and no recovery is possible. Currently, the decoders are being tested on perl 5.8.4 on a Linux box. The decoders have run w/o problems for 4 days but sometimes it takes as much as 4 days before the problems appear. So far so good. The solution is to upgrade to perl 5.8.4 to avoid the risk of having the machine run with extremely high cpu usage and no decoding. Robb... =============================================================================== Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ===============================================================================