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Re: IDL falls to sleep! [message #15317 is a reply to message #15313]

Fri, 30 April 1999 00:00

davidf
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Registered: September 1996

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Terje Fredvik (tfredvik@astro.uio.no) writes:

> One of my programs is generating large data arrays which is saved
> to file using the ordinary "save, [filename], [variable]" command.
> The program has worked excellent, but yesterday something strange
> started to happen; after saving a few arrays IDL went into sleep
> mode (according to the UNIX "top" command) after writing 4 bytes
> to file. Nothing happened (I waited several minutes), and IDL
> did not respond to ctrl-c, but had to be brutally killed. I
> started IDL once more, but the same problem showed up once again;
> IDL fell to sleep when saving (not the same file as last time!).
> I repeated this several times, but every time with the same result.
>
> Is this a problem caused by my code, by IDL or my UNIX alpha station?

This problem reminds me of a...well, (heh, heh) *personal*
problem I've been having lately. I think it's caused by
old age and too many programming cycles. I'd recommend
a new product by Pfizer called...

Oh! It's the *computer* that's falling asleep!?

Oh, never mind. Perhaps you should upgrade to a younger
version of IDL. :-)

Cheers,

David

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