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> Dear Dennis, > > sorry, I was not able to answer earlier. > I would like to specify the problem a little bit closer. > I am working with WINDOWS XP (Home Edition) Version 2002, SP 3. Having > CYGWIN installed on it. The system is running on an Intel Pentium 4, > 2.53 GHz and 1.00 GB RAM. The output of "uname -a" is like: > CYGWIN_NT-5.1 PINGI 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) 2008-06-12 19:34 i686 Cygwin > > I already installed the netcdf libraries for the use of GMT on many > other machines before and did not encounter any problems at all. > Probably it is a problem of the PC I am working on but the error looks > somehow strange. The real story is: > I now tried to install the netcdf libraries on the the above mentioned > PC several times and most of the time I ended with a complete breakdown > of the whole machine. Everything during the installation looks fine > until e.g. "configure.status" is build. Then the machine slows down and > after a couple of minutes I only can move the mouse but the system is > not responding on any mouse click or anything else. I guess it somehow > fills up the virtual memory in a way that the system cannot react > anymore. Sometimes this error occurs a few steps after the above > mentioned point. The only thing I can do then is to kill the machine and > phyically switch off the machine. > > Do you have any idea what this can be and even better how I can overcome > this problem. I need the netcdf libraries for using GMT in order to > finish a scientific paper that is already under review. > > Thanks a lot and best regards, > Matthias > Howdy Matthias! I suspect something is wrong with your path or your cygwin installation. Sometimes it happens that Microsoft has a utility with the same name as a unix utility, but which works differently. So make sure your path does not include anything other than the cygwin directories, and try again. Try running the "top" command in a different cygwin window to see what processes are hogging up your machine. In the normal course of operation, the netCDF configure does not eat up 1 GB of RAM. Do you have other machines with the same processor? If so you could try there. Ed Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: JJS-442947 Department: Support netCDF Priority: Normal Status: Open