[ncl-talk] Killed problem

Rick Brownrigg brownrig at ucar.edu
Fri Mar 15 13:32:48 MDT 2019


Yes, a cryptic "killed" message on a linux machine actually comes from the
OS, and is indicative of extreme memory stress on the machine. I'm not sure
of what to suggest as a work-around without know more what you need to do,
what the data look like, etc.

Goiod luck!
Rick

On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 12:39 PM Vanúcia Schumacher <
vanucia-schumacher at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi NCL users
>
> I am not able to plot 20 years of MODIS data spatially. Each file (every
> year) has 3.3 GB.
> And I get the ncl message "killed" when I try to plot. It is probably a
> lack of memory, although it is using a machine with 64 GB of memory.
> So, any ideas how I could read this data and plot, perhaps decreasing its
> size?
>
> The original data was in hdf, but the ncl also breaks if I try to read 20
> years of data at once to plot, so I separated each file by year, selecting
> the variable and region of interest, creating netcdf files.
>
> Thanks for any help
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