| Re: IDL on IRIX 6.1 problem [message #5152] |
Tue, 24 October 1995 00:00  |
rosentha
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Registered: November 1994
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Colin Rosenthal (rosentha@aauobs.obs.aau.dk) wrote:
: Frank J. �ynes (frank@spacetec.no) wrote:
: : rosentha@aauobs.obs.aau.dk (Colin Rosenthal) wrote:
: : >We are running IDL 4.0 on an SGI Power Challenge. We have recently
: : >upgraded the operating system to IRIX 6.1, and some IDL programs
: : >no longer work. Specifically, attempting to run XINTERANIMATE, the
: : >program generates the first few frames of the movie and then exits
: : >with
: : >
: : >% WINDOW: Unable to create X windows pixmap (BadAlloc (insufficient resources for
: : > operation)).
: : >% Error occurred at: CW_ANIMATE_LOAD 505 /usr/local/rsi/idl_4/lib/cw_animate.pro
: : >% XINTERANIMATE 272
: : > /usr/local/rsi/idl_4/lib/xinteranimate.pro
: : >
: : >A check of help,/memory gives
: : >
: : >heap memory in use: 314924, calls to MALLOC: 1111, FREE: 928 .
: : >
: : >Evidently IDL is swallowing up large amounts of memory which is not
: : >being freed up. Has anyone else experienced similar problems?
: : >
: : >Note that this particular example worked fine under the old operating
: : >system.
: : >
: : >--Colin Rosenthal | ``Don't smell the flowers -
: : >--rosentha@obs.aau.dk | They're an evil drug -
: : >--http://bigcat.obs.aau.dk/~rosentha | To make you lose your mind''-
: : >--Aarhus University, Denmark | Ronnie James Dio, 1983 -
: : If I remember correctly, 6.1 is essentially the same as IRIX 5.3, only
: : for the Power Ch. architecture. If so, check the following:
: : 1) /var/adm/SYSLOG says something like "Out of logical swap space ...."
: : 2) swap -s shows large amount of swapspace RESERVED, though almost no
: : applications are running
: : 3) The application might work the fist time(s) after a reboot, but then
: : the error starts occuring.
: : If all these are true, (at least 2 and 3), I'll bet you have run into
: : bug (or rather, SGI incident) #254412
: : In this case, ask SGI when a patch is available
: : OR mail me for a "workaround" I got from SGI a while back
: : OR downgrade your operating system again.
: This problem has now been solved. It turned out not to have anything
No it hasn't. It looks like you may have been right.
--Colin Rosenthal | ``Don't smell the flowers -
--rosentha@obs.aau.dk | They're an evil drug -
--http://bigcat.obs.aau.dk/~rosentha | To make you lose your mind''-
--Aarhus University, Denmark | Ronnie James Dio, 1983 -
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