<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi,<br><br></div>errno 12 is "Cannot allocate memory". Line 4151of gsn_code.ncl is the second of this block of code:<br><br> cmdStr = "if [ -w " + res_dir + " ] ; then echo 1 ; else echo 0 ; fi"<br> if (<a href="http://type.ne">type.ne</a>."x11" .and. <span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)">systemfunc(cmdStr).</span>ne.1) then<br> print("gsn_open_wks: Error: directory '" + res_dir + "' does not exist or lacks write permissions.");<br> status_exit(1)<br> end if<br><br></div>All this is doing is a testing to make sure the output directory exists and is writeable. Is your system really stressed or otherwise memory constrained?<br><div><br><br></div><div>Running NCL interactively, can you do something like:<br><br></div><div>ncl 1>print(systemfunc("ls -l"))<br><br></div><div>and get the same error?<br><br></div><div>Not sure what to suggest here...<br></div><div>Rick<br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 1:04 PM, Amadou Coulibaly <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mpapin24@gmail.com" target="_blank">mpapin24@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace;font-size:large">Hello NCL users,<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace;font-size:large">I am facing an issue about systemfunc. I have 4 years daily TRMM data to plot. I used NCO "ncrcat" to mergetime. But when I wanted to plot, I am getting the following errors:<br><br><font size="2">fatal:systemfunc: cannot create child process:[errno=12]<br>fatal:["Execute.c":8575]:Execute: Error occurred at or near line 4151 in file $NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl<br><br>fatal:["Execute.c":8575]:Execute: Error occurred at or near line 93 in file mon_precip_trmm.ncl</font><br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace;font-size:large">This line 93 corresponds to: wks = gsn_open_wks("png","Mean_Monthly_Rainfall_TRMM")<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace;font-size:large">But if I used "x11" as plot type, it works, but not for "png" or "eps".<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace;font-size:large">How to solve this issue?<br clear="all"></div><br>-- <br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><b 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