Messages from Usenet group comp.lang.idl-pvwave, compiled by Paulo Penteado
In article <4m69hv$2sr@news1.ucsd.edu>, "Doug K. Silver" <dsilver> wrote: > I am running IDL on a Sparc 10 using SunOS. Here's the problem: > We increased the ram in our machine to let us make longer animations, > but IDL crashes after ~370 frames, which is what it did before the > additional memory. When it crashes, it has only used ~63Mb of RAM > (~33%), and it posts the following error message: > XIO: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) on X server ":0.0" > after 71519 requests (71517 known processed) with 0 events remaining. > The connection was probably broken by a server shutdown or KillClient. > > I will be extremely grateful to any suggestions as to possible solutions. Do you have per-process memory limitations in place? I am not familiar with SunOS, but Unixes I have used allow such things. Regards, Ken Bowman -- Kenneth P. Bowman, Assoc. Prof. 409-862-4060 Department of Meteorology 409-862-4132 fax Texas A&M University bowman@csrp.tamu.edu College Station, TX 77843-3150 Satellite ozone movies on CD-ROM --> http://www.lenticular.com/