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[netCDF #OJR-230295]: Out of memory error
- Subject: [netCDF #OJR-230295]: Out of memory error
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 09:39:47 -0700
Hi Mikhail,
Sorry to take so long to reply, but I was away from my office at a meeting for
a week.
> I was trying to create a NetCDF file using ncgen utility and received
> the following error message:
>
> ncgen: sac.cdl line 280: out of memory
>
> but there is more than enough memory on my machine.
>
> On the line 280 the data begins, and cdl file is not a huge one (8.9MB).
>
>
> I use ncgen version 3.6.0-p1 and upper part of my cdl file (no data) is
> attached.
You need to use the "-v 2" option to ncgen when you create version 2 netCDF
files that use 64-bit file offsets. Each of the large variables you have
specified require 4077588736 bytes, which is larger than the 2 GiByte limit for
variable sizes in netCDF version 1 files. For more information about Large
File Support and ncgen options to support large files, see the netCDF
Frequently Asked Questions section on Large File Support:
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/docs/faq.html#Large%20File%20Support
which deals with this. I should also note that ncdump and ncgen haven't been
tested extensively on very large files, so you may encounter other problems.
Also, if you use a more up-to-date version such as 3.6.1 or 3.6.2-beta, you
would have gotten a more informative error message that might have helped to
identify the problem:
ncgen: NetCDF: One or more variable sizes violate format constraints
Specifying variables that are larger than 2 GiBytes can make your files less
portable than other netCDF files, because such variables cannot be accessed on
platforms with 32-bit size_t types, even though 64-bit off_t types are
supported. For example, you can't declare an array larger than 2 GiBytes on a
32-bit system, so you could not read all the values of such a variable into a
single memory array.
--Russ
Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program
address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu
Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: OJR-230295
Department: Support netCDF
Priority: High
Status: Closed