argusarchive segmentation faults

John Nagro john.nagro at gmail.com
Tue Feb 1 12:39:12 EST 2005


Peter,

I appreciate the advice. We generally just have a lot of data to work
with, i can live without the sort.

Thanks again!

-John


On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 09:35:31 -0800, Peter Van Epp <vanepp at sfu.ca> wrote:
>         Its not a bug pe se, but that sorting a big file takes a lot of
> memory. You can boost system memory and perhaps the per task memory allocation
> parameters in the kernel (at least on FreeBSD) so that your task can actually
> use some of the additional memory and probably make it work depending on how
> large your files get.
> 
> Peter Van Epp / Operations and Technical Support
> Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Canada
> 
> 
> On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 12:29:43PM -0500, John Nagro wrote:
> > Peter,
> >
> > Thanks for the response. It was infact rasort, i lost the specific
> > message, but i remember that part. I will try to comment that out and
> > see what happens. If it still fails, i will try that debugging and
> > send more info to the list.
> >
> > Is there a particular bug with rasort that could be fixed?
> >
> > Thanks a lot!
> >
> > -John
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 09:23:10 -0800, Peter Van Epp <vanepp at sfu.ca> wrote:
> > >         Replaceing #!/bin/sh with #!/bin/sh -x -v as the first line will
> > > turn on debugging and tell you where the seg fault occurs (likely one of the
> > > programs being called running out of memory). If it is generating core files
> > > the core should tell you which program is getting the seg fault. rasort is
> > > always a good bet, you may wish to comment out the RASORT line below if your
> > > files are large (and/or feed one of the files that segfaults in to rasort and
> > > see if it seg faults on the command line).
> > >
> > > if [ -f $ARCHIVE.tmp ]; then
> > > #  $RAGATOR -VRr $ARCHIVE.tmp -w - | $RASORT -w $ARCHIVE
> > >    $RASORT -r $ARCHIVE.tmp -w $ARCHIVE
> > >
> > > Peter Van Epp / Operations and Technical Support
> > > Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Canada
> > >
> > > On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 12:12:31PM -0500, John Nagro wrote:
> > > > I have been getting seg faults when using the argusarchive script
> > > > recently. Any ideas?
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > John Nagro
> > > > john.nagro at gmail.com
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > John Nagro
> > john.nagro at gmail.com
> 


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John Nagro
john.nagro at gmail.com



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