[daip] FILLM question

[Eric Greisen]

Tracy Clarke (Foreign National) writes:
 > Yeah, I had heard that Becky called you up. Sigh. I've been working with 
 > her and the group for a few months now. Speaking of them, we are running 
 > a RUN file multiple times and they say that after 18 runs they 
 > consistently get a BLEW CORE! message. I know we could restore 0 to fix 
 > this (at least I think that is the case) but the problem is that we need 
 > to run wrtprocs before we run the run file. I tried putting the run 
 > wrtprocs call inside the run file but I guess one can't run a run file 
 > from a run file. I don't really understand why they get this --- they told 
 > me that they enter AIPS start the run files and exit AIPS each time. Can 
 > you think of what I might be able to do to stop this? Thanks,

It depends on what their run file does.  If it defines procs then each
time it is run it redefines them using more memory until it is
exhausted.  They should have 2 run files - one that defines the procs
and then one that uses them.  The former is run once, the latter many
times.

Eric Greisen