Hi Charles, > Yes it eventually blows out of memeory. that's actually how I > doscovered the leak. > So I guess I need to try to send the code to the HDF5 people? Well, maybe we can try another leak detection tool first, valgrind on Linux, just to make sure it's not in our code. I'll see if I can get to that tomorrow. --Russ Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: AIX-376820 Department: Support netCDF Priority: Normal Status: Closed