Hello,
I'm running Gempak 5.11.4 under 64 bit Centos 5.5 on a server with 16 GB
of memory and 8 x Intel Xeon 5450 @ 3.00GHz processors, standard out of
the box kernel, things have been stable for a while.
Historically, I have taught a small class (4-5) where students log in to
a central server via putty and run gempak command line programs
(sfmap,gdplot3, etc.) while piping xwindows to their local screen (using
Xming for Xwindow emulation)
This year, my class size is 11. When I get to about 6 instances of
sfmap running, any additional sfmap attempts gets messages like this:
$ sfmap
Error in message send = 22
itype, ichan, nwords,1,-1,2
Creating process: gplt for queue -1
Error in message send = 22
itype, ichan, nwords,1,-1,3
[GEMPLT -1] NMBRER - Mailbox read.
Interestingly, I do not have this problem with GUI programs like nmap2
or nwx, I have been able to run ~20 simultaneous instances without incident.
I've looked for renegade gplt processes and ipcs and found nothing out
of the ordinary. System load & memory usage are both reasonable. Is
there a limitation that I am not aware of? Does running in 64 bit have
anything to do with it? Are there kernel options or gempak compilation
options that can be set somewhere to get around this? '
Any advice is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Brendon
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Brendon Hoch
Technology Manager
Judd Gregg Meteorology Institute
MSC 48, Boyd Hall 321A
Plymouth State University
Plymouth, NH 03264
(603)535-2818 Fax: (603)535-2723
http://vortex.plymouth.edu/~bhoch
