<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Harry,</div><div><br></div><div>A simple "killed" message is Linux's very unhelpful manner of saying it has direly run out  out of memory (google that for plenty of references/discussion). It is neither an NCL or a Python issue.</div><div><br></div><div>Without better understanding of your script, I'm not sure what to suggest. Perhaps process your files in smaller batches? You are aware that "delete"ing no-longer-used variables frees their memory? <br></div><div><br></div><div>Rick<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 4:11 AM Ian Harris (ENV - Staff) <<a href="mailto:I.Harris@uea.ac.uk">I.Harris@uea.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">



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<div>I’m running a long and slightly cumbersome NCL script - with callouts to WRAPITted Fortran subs. It takes about 8 days to complete, as it’s reading a lot of high res gridded files (HARMONIE/V1 reanalysis), regridding them, and producing an aligned-with-CRU
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<div>However, I’ve now had two instances of it just.. dying. The most recent was this morning (UK time):</div>
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</span>Fri 14 Jun 2019 04:47:42 BST: top of monthly loop with iy=2005 and im=8<br>
(0)<span class="gmail-m_6641895474907390298Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Fri 14 Jun 2019 04:47:42 BST: top of variable loop with var=TMP_P0_L103_GLC0<br>
cruhar_v3_2005_08_3hourly_Tairalign.nc                                                             100%  162MB  10.8MB/s   00:15    <br>
(0)<span class="gmail-m_6641895474907390298Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>/Volumes/VERIFY2/output_v3/cruhar_v3_2005_08_3hourly_Tairalign.nc successfully uploaded<br>
(0)<span class="gmail-m_6641895474907390298Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Fri 14 Jun 2019 04:48:48 BST: top of variable loop with var=PRES_P0_L1_GLC0<br>
cruhar_v3_2005_08_3hourly_Psurfnoalign.nc                                                          100%  162MB   9.5MB/s   00:17    <br>
(0)<span class="gmail-m_6641895474907390298Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>/Volumes/VERIFY2/output_v3/cruhar_v3_2005_08_3hourly_Psurfnoalign.nc successfully uploaded<br>
(0)<span class="gmail-m_6641895474907390298Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Fri 14 Jun 2019 04:49:55 BST: top of variable loop with var=WDIR_P0_L103_GLC0<br>
(0)<span class="gmail-m_6641895474907390298Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Fri 14 Jun 2019 04:50:39 BST: top of variable loop with var=WIND_P0_L103_GLC0<br>
Killed<br>
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<div>Now where does that 'Killed' come from? Is the system killing it? I see nothing in the system logs. I have plenty of RAM (double what I had the first time it Killed), so I can’t see it being that.</div>
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<div>Any suggestions would be helpful!</div>
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<div>Cheers</div>
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<div>Harry</div>
<div>PS Yes I’m sure it won’t happen with Python :)</div>
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