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20010507: oabsnd and swap space

Chris, one more thing- double check that you don't have a file
called gplt in your working directory that would be
confused with $GEMEXE/gplt. This is more likely to occur
when you use device drivers like "gif" and you have
a directory called "gif". 

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support


>From: address@hidden (Chris Hennon)
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200105071618.f47GIbp13844

>Steve -
>
>I've run into a curious problem.  I'm trying to run "oabsnd" for just one
>level and one variable and the program exits with a NOPROC - Nonexistent
>executable and "Could not fork" errors.  I think I have plenty of swap
>space:
>
>swap -s
>total: 67792k bytes allocated + 167728k reserved = 235520k used, 159608k
>available
>
>There are no rogue processes around that I can see.  There are no dead
>message queues.  In the past, I have run oabsnd under the same conditions
>without a problem, even with more levels and more variables.  The support
>archives all seem to indicate a problem with either swap space or orphaned
>processes but it doesn't appear that I have those issues.  Any ideas?
>Thanks.
>
>Chris    
>
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