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Re: nfcreate error 5010



Steve,

> First off, his problem wasn't on babyblue, it was on
> chipeta. I realize his email to Russ was awfully unclear
> about that (particularly since the only machine mentioned
> by name in the mail was babyblue). No wonder you couldn't
> find the error code! Second, he's only experiencing it on batch
> jobs. On UNICOS, an error code of 5010 is an internal
> library error indicating that the library got an ENOMEM
> (out of memory) on an internal call to malloc.
> 
> I'm assuming that when netcdf called fopen, the fopen failed
> because buffer space couldn't be allocated.  My assumption is that
> he hit either his job or job step memory limit. I told him
> to increase both of them. I haven't heard back since.

Thanks!  I'll file this in our searchable netcdf support database (it
gets done automatically by CC:ing to support-netcdf) so we can find it
the next time someone asks about "error 5010".

--Russ