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Art, The SIGINT signal is being caught in $GEMPAK/source/bridge/dc/dcsgnl.c which causes the exit. I have found 1 possible cause, being a bulletin that did not have the trailing 7777 (signalling the end of the grib) and therefore the decoder kept cycling through the input buffer.....when I believe it should stop at the specified length of the data stated in the PDS block of the decoder. I have added some debugging to try to catch an example of the grib product that is missing the correct 7777, since asside from handling the erroneous condition in dcgrib2, NCEP/NWS should fix the problem if it exists. Do you know the product that you missed? Steve Chiswell >From: "Arthur A. Person" <address@hidden> >Organization: UCAR/Unidata >Keywords: 200308181924.h7IJOQLd021914 >Hi... > >I was wondering if you know what "Interrupt" in a dcgrib2 log might mean. >I got one *approximately* around the time that I lost a grid field that >should have been decoded in a gempak output file for the ETA model. The >lines nearby in the log are: > >[23085] 030818/1244 [DM 0] >[23085] 030818/1249 [DCGRIB -55] Grid too large 1830 x 918 [1679940 > >400000] >[23085] 030818/1249 [DCGRIB -55] Grid too large 1830 x 918 [1679940 > >400000] >[23085] 030818/1249 [DCGRIB -55] Grid too large 1830 x 918 [1679940 > >400000] >[23085] 030818/1249 [DCGRIB -55] Grid too large 1830 x 918 [1679940 > >400000] >[23085] 030818/1249 [DCGRIB -55] Grid too large 1830 x 918 [1679940 > >400000] >[23085] 030818/1250 [DCGRIB -55] Grid too large 1830 x 918 [1679940 > >400000] >[23085] 030818/1250 [DCGRIB -55] Grid too large 1830 x 918 [1679940 > >400000] >[23085] 030818/1250 [DCGRIB -55] Grid too large 1830 x 918 [1679940 > >400000] >[23085] 030818/1250 [DCGRIB -50] griblen [1234594] > maxgribsize [1000000] >[23085] 030818/1319 [DCGRIB -55] Grid too large 1830 x 918 [1679940 > >400000] >[13628] 030818/1320 [DC 3] >[13628] 030818/1320 [DC -11] >[13628] 030818/1329 [DCGRIB -55] Grid too large 1830 x 918 [1679940 > >400000] >[13628] 030818/1329 [DCGRIB -55] Grid too large 1830 x 918 [1679940 > >400000] >[13628] 030818/1329 [DCGRIB -55] Grid too large 1830 x 918 [1679940 > >400000] >[13628] 030818/1329 [DCGRIB -55] Grid too large 1830 x 918 [1679940 > >400000] >[13628] 030818/1329 [DCGRIB -55] Grid too large 1830 x 918 [1679940 > >400000] >[13628] 030818/1329 [DCGRIB -55] Grid too large 1830 x 918 [1679940 > >400000] >[13628] 030818/1329 [DCGRIB -55] Grid too large 1830 x 918 [1679940 > >400000] >[13628] 030818/1329 [DCGRIB -55] Grid too large 1830 x 918 [1679940 > >400000] >[13628] 030818/1329 [DCGRIB -55] Grid too large 1830 x 918 [1679940 > >400000] >[13628] 030818/1330 [DCGRIB -50] griblen [1234594] > maxgribsize [1000000] >[13628] 030818/1354 [DCGRIB -55] Grid too large 1830 x 918 [1679940 > >400000] >[13628] 030818/1354 [DCGRIB -55] Grid too large 1830 x 918 [1679940 > >400000] >[13628] 030818/1359 [DCGRIB -55] Grid too large 1830 x 918 [1679940 > >400000] >[13628] 030818/1359 [DCGRIB -55] Grid too large 1830 x 918 [1679940 > >400000] >[13628] 030818/1359 [DCGRIB -55] Grid too large 1830 x 918 [1679940 > >400000] >[13628] 030818/1359 [DCGRIB -55] Grid too large 1830 x 918 [1679940 > >400000] >[13628] 030818/1359 [DCGRIB -55] Grid too large 1830 x 918 [1679940 > >400000] >[13628] 030818/1359 [DCGRIB -55] Grid too large 1830 x 918 [1679940 > >400000] >[13628] 030818/1402 [DCGRIB -55] Grid too large 1830 x 918 [1679940 > >400000] >[13628] 030818/1408 [DCGRIB -55] Grid too large 1830 x 918 [1679940 > >400000] >[13628] 030818/1414 [DC 2] Interrupt Signal >[13628] 030818/1414 [DC 5] >[13628] 030818/1414 [DC 2] Number of bulletins read and processed: 9330 >[13628] 030818/1414 [DC 6] >[19966] 030818/1415 [DC 3] >[19966] 030818/1415 [DC -11] >[19966] 030818/1422 [DCGRIB -55] Grid too large 1830 x 918 [1679940 > >400000] >[19966] 030818/1427 [DM 0] > > >I'm running LDM V6.0.14 on RH9 with a dcgrib2 built on RH 7.2 (gempak >V5.6.h) for this. The decoded data is being filed over NFS. The decoder >seems to have run great except for this one field that was lost which has >made me a little nervous, so I'm trying to track it down. I'm comparing >output from this system with parallel ingest/decoding on another system >here locally to establish correctness. > > Thanks. > > Art. > >Arthur A. Person >Research Assistant, System Administrator >Penn State Department of Meteorology >email: address@hidden, phone: 814-863-1563 >