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Adam, The format of the WOU bulletins has changed significantly from last year when the 5.6.J release. You are now 2 releases behind (5.6.K and most recently 5.6.L.1). decoders in particular will become outdated as bulletin formats change. I would recommend upgrading to the current release and see if that helps. I am out of town until Dec 8, and will be at a conference from Dec 8-11 on return, but can work with you to arrange a time if you want help on the upgrade. Steve Chiswell >From: address@hidden >Organization: UCAR/Unidata >Keywords: 200311282337.hASNbpEH025004 >I have noticed this problem before you guys redid my machine (cyclone) about 1 > - >2 months back. I figured it was something that i didn't do right installing >gempak and that it would be fixed when you guys installed gempak. However, >over the last 1-2 months i have noticed the same exact problem with two of >the decoders (dcwou and dcacft). > >The two decoders seem to dump core alot. As of one days time these two >decoders have dumped core 15 times. Some times I have caught dcwou before it >has dumped core. When i use "top" to view the processes both CPU's are maxed >out. 99% for one instance of dcwou and 99% for the other instance of dcwou, >with load times of 7+, 7+, 7+ . Then about 5-10 min later it dies with this >in the ldmd.log file. > >Nov 27 03:51:35 cyclone pqact[23874]: child 5430 terminated by signal 11 > >The dcacft i have never caught. It just seems to start up and die within 1-2 >sec of running. The logs for both decoders says: > >(the decoder's name log):[?????] 031127/1007 [DC 3] Starting up. Version 5.6. > j > >and that is it. There is nothing else in the log but it has deposited a core >in my home directory. > >Anyways, i hope you can help > >Thanks, > >-- >Adam Taylor >Computing Center >University of Louisiana at Monroe >