<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hey Ryan, an out-of-memory error (I guess you are getting a segmentation fault, otherwise it may be more complicated to debug) can usually be resolved by increasing the memory that NCL reserves for drawing the contours. Have a look here <a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Graphics/hlures.shtml" class="">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Graphics/hlures.shtml</a> (<span style="font-family: courier; font-size: 13.3333px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Increase the default (16mb) contour memory.).</span><div class=""><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">However I don't understand why you are not getting the same result with RasterFill. You should just use this option and leave out the smoothing, which sometimes can be a problem (and slow things down considerably) if you have a lot of points...</div><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 29 Dec 2016, at 21:36, Ryan Connelly <<a href="mailto:rconne01@gmail.com" class="">rconne01@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Hi,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I'm running a rather computationally intensive NCL script that attempts to calculate and plot geostrophic MPV. At times, it is (understandably) very <i class="">very </i>slow, and at other times I have encountered an error about workspace memory allocation being exceeded. With regards to the latter, I read a suggestion to change from...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> <font face="monospace, monospace" class="">opts_pv@cnFillOn = True</font><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">...to...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""> <font face="monospace, monospace" class="">opts_pv@cnFillMode = "RasterFill"</font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace, monospace" class=""> opts_pv@cnRasterSmoothingOn = True</font><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">When doing so, the script executes much faster, but does not plot my desired field. (I printed out test points to confirm that the values are within the range I tell it to plot in ContourParameters, so I know that is not the problem.)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Why might this be?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class="">Ryan</div><div class=""><br class=""></div>-- <br class=""><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><font size="1" class="">Ryan Connelly</font></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px" class=""><font class=""><font size="1" class="">M.S. Student in Atmospheric Sciences, </font><span style="font-size:x-small" class="">Stony Brook University</span><br class=""></font></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px" class=""><div class=""><font class=""><font size="1" class="">B.S. in Meteorology with Minors in Mathematics and GIS, </font><span style="font-size:x-small" class="">Valparaiso University</span></font></div></div><div class=""><a href="mailto:rconne01@gmail.com" style="font-size:x-small" target="_blank" class="">rconne01@gmail.com</a><br class=""></div><div class=""><font size="1" class=""><a href="mailto:ryan.connelly@stonybrook.edu" target="_blank" class="">ryan.connelly@stonybrook.edu</a></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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