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On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Russ Rew wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks to Pete Pokrandt for identifying an alignment bug in the LDM > 5.1.2 pqcreate program that results in a bus error. The bug seems to > occur under the following circumstances: > > - SGI/IRIX 32-bit platform (things seems to work fine on 64-bit IRIX > platforms when compiled with -64 flag), > > - LDM 5.1.2 (things seem to work fine with LDM 5.1.2beta3), and > > - some combinations of values of queue size and number of products. > > Until we come up with a fix, the (admittedly klunky) workaround is to > try a few different values of number of products with "-S" option to > pqcreate until you find one that works with the queue size you have > specified, or if you are using "ldmadmin mkqueue" to try slightly > different queue sizes with "-s". Russ, The -s flag was deprecated because users were having problems remembering the size of the queue. The queue size is specified in the ldmadmin script. I guess the main problem was more than one LDM adminstrator at a site making the queue. This instance came up in some support questions. /local/ldm% ldmadmin mkqueue -s 33333 Sep 26 13:15:39 UTC zero.unidata.ucar.edu : product queue -s flag not supported, no action taken. At this point, I would not send another message to ldm-users unless we get some support questions about this problem. It's up to you. Robb... > > I guess we were just lucky in testing, and didn't use one of the > combinations that resulted in a SIGBUS error. > > --Russ > > _____________________________________________________________________ > > Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program > address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu > =============================================================================== Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ===============================================================================