19990518: Garp and NIDS contract

Brian,

I'm not seeing the type of memory usage you see under Solaris.
Did you modify any of the $NAWIPS/config/Makeinc.sol settings
such as compiler optimizations flags? One thing that might lead to
huge program set sizes is by specifying a high optimization which
can lead to lots on code expansion and in-lining and bloat the 
memory requirements.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support

>From: Brian Colle <address@hidden>
>Organization: .
>Keywords: 199905181953.NAA18341

>
>Steve,
>
>I have 800 Mb designated to swap for my 384 Mb RAM machine. The ldm
>and decoding is running on this machine, which takes about 200 Mb 
>of swap. I fired up a garp session and I could not believe that it
>reserves another 400 Mb of swap, so there is only 200 left. This is
>probably why I can't fire up another one. But why do you think my garp is
>taking so much, ie: After loading Garp with ntl
>ldm>swap -s
>total: 151520k bytes allocated + 407440k reserved = 558960k used, 263920k
>available
>
>Before loading garp:
>swap -s
>total: 147384k bytes allocated + 31112k reserved = 178496k used, 644576k
>available
>
>Thanks again,
>
>Brian
>
>On Tue, 18 May 1999, Unidata Support wrote:
>
>> 
>> Brian,
>> 
>> There is nothing in the garp setup for multiple sessions. You
>> should be able to run several garp sessions so long as you have the memory.
>> 
>> Some checks to see if memory is a problem:
>> 1) look for hung gplt sessions from other gempak programs
>> 2) use the "swap -s" command to see how much available
>>    memory and swap space you have. If something like a dead
>>    gplt is hanging around, it can eat up your swap. Or it might be
>>    that yuou need to create an additional amount of swap space
>>    on your system using the "mkfile" command and then adding it
>>    to available swap with the "swap" command.
>> 
>>    If you have 64mb of ram, then you usually should have 128mb of swap-
>>    but if you are doing a lot of other stuff on the machine, then
>>    you might try increasing it to 196 or 256 Mb. 
>> 
>> If you need help with swap considerations, send me the output of the
>> "swap -s" command so I can see what resources you have.
>> 
>> Steve Chiswell
>> Unidata User Support
>> 
>> >From: Brian Colle <address@hidden>
>> >Organization: .
>> >Keywords: 199905181901.NAA17191
>> 
>> >
>> >Dear Steve,
>> >
>> >Yes, I am using ntl, but when I press the Garp icon for another session
>> >a new window does not come up, only the standard message:
>> >Invoke ... /usr/local/ldm/NAWIPS-5.4/bin/sol/garp. If I try to get
>> >another garp up using the command line, it just says "killed," which
>> >sounds like the memory problem you were describing. I can load a Garp
>> >and ntrans simultaneously, or two ntrans simultaneously. Is there
>> >something in the GARP installation setup about multiple sessions?
>> >
>> >Thanks again,
>> >
>> >Brian
>> >
>> >____________________________________________________________
>> >Dr. Brian Colle         INTERNET: address@hidden
>> >(516)632-3174
>> >Institute for Terrestrial and Planetary Atmospheres
>> >Marine Sciences Research Center
>> >State University of New York at Stony Brook
>> >Stony Brook, NY 11794-5000
>> >
>> >
>> >> 
>> >> Brian,
>> >> 
>> >> Are you launching Garp from the "ntl" launching bar?
>> >> Running ntl ensures that you have a common color table for all gempak
>> >> programs- including garp - to access. If you are just running garp
>> >> from the command line, then you will likely have trouble launching
>> >> a second session since it will try to obtain a separate color map.
>> >> With the shared color map, you should be able to launch several garp sess
> ion
>> > s.
>> >> 
>> >> The NIDS data is handled between universities directly with WSI.
>> >> Unidata negotiated the educational pricing, but the data is sent
>> >> directly from WSI to you and they handle all contract and billing.
>> >> 
>> >> Steve Chiswell
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