>From: Gilbert Sebenste <address@hidden> >Organization: NIU >Keywords: 200210050242.g952g0127088 ldm-mcidas proftomd Gilbert, I have been logged onto weather2 for the past couple of days trying to troubleshoot the problems you have been having running the ldm-mcidas FSL wind profiler decoder, proftomd. Nothing that I see makes any sense! I can't find any obvious bugs in proftomd, so I can't say for sure why it hangs and sucks up CPU. I did, however, figure out a bandaid kludge to get proftomd working again. It is not a fix; it is a kludge! So, proftomd is once again decoding profiler data into McIDAS MD format. The second problem you saw and reported to the ldm-users email list was with the McIDAS-XCD synoptic decoder, DMSYN (dmsyn.k). I have been trying to find out why/where it apparently goes into an infinite loop, but I have not yet been successful. I rebuilt dmsyn.k using the debug flag and havn't seen it mess up since (scary). I will continue to let it run hoping that it will go into an infinite loop while I am watching. If/when it does, it needs to be killed by sending it an ABRT signal: kill -ABRT <pid_of_dmsyn.k> Hopefully, this will cause it to dump out a core file that I can then examine. In order to allow this, I set the coredumpsize in the 'ldm' environment to unlimited: <logon as 'ldm'> unlimit coredumpsize and then stopped and restarted the LDM: ldmadmin stop <wait for all LDM processes to exit> ldmadmin start If the LDM is stopped and restarted by 'ldm' in a different session, the core file size will return to nothing and failures will not dump out core files. Tom >From address@hidden Thu Oct 17 21:06:08 2002 >Subject: Re: 20021007: Proftomd hanging on RedHat 8.0 (cont.) Hi Tom, re: bandaid kludge to get proftomd working >Thanks. FYI, I did install the latest kernel on weather2 this afternoon. >See what happens now. I haven't gotten to weather yet. re: investigating synoptic decoder >OK, will do. See if the kernel patch helps. Thanks for doing this! Dan >Vietor was the first to point out the kernel's shortcomings; hopefully, >this is fixed now. ******************************************************************************* Gilbert Sebenste ******** Internet: address@hidden (My opinions only!) ****** Staff Meteorologist, Northern Illinois University **** E-mail: address@hidden *** web: http://weather.admin.niu.edu ** Work phone: 815-753-5492 * *******************************************************************************
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