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Gilbert, > To: General Support <address@hidden> > From: Gilbert Sebenste <address@hidden> > Subject: LDM 6.0.15 crashes again... > Organization: NIU > Keywords: 200405310600.i4V60mtK022724 LDM The above message contained the following: > Another sigbus whatever it is...on weather3.admin.niu.edu... A SIGBUS means that an attempt was made to access an undefined portion of a memory object. This could be due to a bug in the program or, I'm sorry to say, a bug in the operating system. > Gilbert > > ****************************************************************************** > Gilbert Sebenste ******** > (My opinions only!) ****** > Staff Meteorologist, Northern Illinois University **** > E-mail: address@hidden *** > web: http://weather.admin.niu.edu ** > Work phone: 815-753-5492 * > ****************************************************************************** > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 16:58:47 -0500 (CDT) > From: root <address@hidden> > To: address@hidden > > Jun 10 21:40:41 weather3 weather2(feed)[14768]: topo: > weather2.admin.niu.edu NLDN > Jun 10 21:42:35 weather3 pqact[7130]: pbuf_flush 4: time elapsed > 6.537632 > Jun 10 21:42:39 weather3 pqact[7130]: pbuf_flush 4: time elapsed > 2.653611 > Jun 10 21:42:52 weather3 pqact[7130]: pbuf_flush 32: time elapsed > 9.039444 The last message above means that it took the pqact(1) process over 9 seconds to write a block of data to a UNIX pipe. This is a rather long time and means that either the process reading the pipe is slow or the machine is overloaded. > Jun 10 21:46:35 weather3 pqact[7130]: pbuf_flush 5: time elapsed > 2.109481 > Jun 10 21:49:28 weather3 rpc.ldmd[7126]: child 7135 terminated by signal 7 > Jun 10 21:49:28 weather3 rpc.ldmd[7126]: Killing (SIGINT) process group ... Naturally, the 6.0.15 LDM we're running on host Rodney (which is very similar to Weather3) isn't having any problems. By any chance, was this a debug version of the LDM and is there a core file? Regards, Steve Emmerson > NOTE: All email exchanges with Unidata User Support are recorded in the > Unidata inquiry tracking system and then made publically available > through the web. If you do not want to have your interactions made > available in this way, you must let us know in each email you send to us.