Re: Broken Pipe/Logical Swap

[Ansley Manke <ansley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,
After a few off-line exchanges, we have determined that these errors,
which were actually saying "cannot open pipe", look like a system issue
with allocating very large ammounts of memory in reading big files.

Ansley Manke

Steve Cocks wrote:

> Hello again,
>
> I have been getting a "broken pipe" error recently while running Ferret
> scripts on a SGI type system.  All of the calculations in the ferret
> scripts seem to be running fine, albiet probably a bit slow.  Our system
> admistrator noted the system log is recording ferret as running out of
> logical swap space.  Both of us searched the email archive for a similar
> problem but really didn't find one.  Has anyone run into this type of
> problem before?
>
> Scocks
> TAMU