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- From: leep@vax.oxford.ac.uk
- Newsgroups: comp.graphics.explorer
- Subject: Re: IsosurfLat2 Limitations?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.161137.10995@vax.oxford.ac.uk>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 16:11:37 GMT
- References: <1992Dec23.011833.10963@vax.oxford.ac.uk> <1992Dec24.004917.1397@odin.corp.sgi.com>
- Organization: Oxford University VAX 6620
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- In article <1992Dec24.004917.1397@odin.corp.sgi.com>, ciemo@bananapc.csd.sgi.com (Dave Ciemiewicz) writes:
- > In article <1992Dec23.011833.10963@vax.oxford.ac.uk>, leep@vax.oxford.ac.uk writes:
- > |>
- > |> IsosurfaceLat and IsosurfaceLat2 both crash
- > |> on large data sets. The size is not
- > > ...
- > |> Peter Lee
- >
- > Something to check for - does your arenasize exceed the available disk space
- > on the disk specified by tempdir (default is /usr/tmp). The shared memory
- > arena used by explorer is mapped to a file under the tempdir directory.
- > This mapped file acts as the VM swapfile for the arena (not your swap
- > partition).
- >
- > The mapped arena file does not start out attempting to use all of the
- > disk space specified by arenasize. As memory is needed, the arena file
- > will grow. If it grows past the available memory, weird execution
- > behavior will occur and no errors that the arena has grown larger than
- > the available disk space will be displayed. I've encountered the kind of
- > weird behavior like you are seeing in the circumstances that I had specified
- > an arena larger than the disk space that I had. I don't know if this is
- > the problem that you are encountering.
- >
- > --- Dave
-
-
- Thanks, this was the problem.
-
- However, on the machine I was using most of the disk is full
- so I set the tempdir to a NSF mounted disk. When I did this
- none of my datascribe modules would work unless tempdir was
- on a local disk. Any ideas on what is wrong?
-
- cheers,
- peter lee
-