Re: Pipeline Problems

[Michael Koppelman <lolife@bitstream.net>]

I'd get that up to 1 gig of RAM for sure. It's cheap. It is very 
possible that something along the way is memory leaking.

Michael

On Jul 19, 2004, at 11:36 AM, Thomas Droege wrote:

> On the 15th one of the pipelines failed to produce star lists (.cal).  
> It
> did make the collated files (.clt) a real mystery since everything 
> seemed
> to be OK.
>
> After consultation with Michael, I again ran the photometry step 
> breaking
> the .clt files into chunks.  Everything ran.  Apparently the pipeline 
> was
> running out of memory at some stage.
>
> Later it occurred to me that the computer may have "lost" some memory. 
>   It
> had been running a long time since a reboot.  The computer that failed 
> was
> my "Wall-Mart" Lindows special.  (Long since reloaded with Mandrake 
> linux)
> It is the slowest of the 6 computers in the pipeline and has the least
> memory.  256Mbytes.