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Hi Nirmal. It looks like you are running out of system resources. Could you try loading in less data, or subsetting your data spatially or temporally? -Julien > Full Name: Nirmal Chaudhary > Email Address: address@hidden > Organization: ITC > Package Version: 2.9u2 build date:2010-11-24 08:15 UTC > Operating System: Linux > Hardware: Java: home: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.20/jre version: 1.6.0_20 > j3d:1.5.2 fcs (build4) > Description of problem: > > Error writing local netcdf file. > > Data:http://lead.unidata.ucar.edu:8080/thredds/dodsC/model/NCEP/GFS/Global_0p5deg/GFS_Global_0p5deg_20101008_1800.grib2 > Variables:[Albedo, Momentum_flux_u_component, Momentum_flux_v_component, > Precipitation_rate, Total_cloud_cover_entire_atmosphere, > Upward_Long-Wave_Rad_Flux_surface, Pressure_surface, Relative_humidity, > Relative_humidity_height_above_ground, Surface_Lifted_Index, Temperature, > Temperature_surface, U-component_of_wind, > U-component_of_wind_height_above_ground, V-component_of_wind, > V-component_of_wind_height_above_ground, Vertical_speed_sheer, > Vertical_speed_sheer_tropopause] > > Request too big=8796741120 Mbytes, max=2000000000 > > ****************** > Stack trace: > java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Request too big=8796741120 Mbytes, > max=2000000000 > at ucar.nc2.dt.grid.NetcdfCFWriter.makeFile(NetcdfCFWriter.java:179) > at ucar.nc2.dt.grid.NetcdfCFWriter.makeFile(NetcdfCFWriter.java:89) > at > ucar.unidata.data.grid.GeoGridDataSource.saveDataToLocalDisk(GeoGridDataSource.java:864) > at > ucar.unidata.data.DataSourceImpl.saveDataToLocalDisk(DataSourceImpl.java:2620) > at > ucar.unidata.data.DataSourceImpl.saveDataToLocalDisk(DataSourceImpl.java:2587) > at > ucar.unidata.data.grid.GeoGridDataSource$1$1.run(GeoGridDataSource.java:664) > at ucar.unidata.util.Misc$3.run(Misc.java:1090) > > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: XEN-170443 Department: Support IDV Priority: Normal Status: Closed