[daip] AIPS timeout

[Anita M. S. Richards]

On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Eric Greisen wrote:

> Anita M. S. Richards wrote:
>> Dear 'Daip',
>> 
>> We have a recurrent error with Dec08 AIPS, in that tasks time out
>> AIPS 1: TASK HAS NOT BEGUN IN   15.1 SECONDS
>> AIPS 1: Begin check for any 'standard' scratch files
>> AIPS 1: Scratch files -- destroyed:    0  still active:    0

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> apply to you.  A suggestion was made - that when memory is crowded (both real 
> RAM and swap) then tasks will try to start but not proceed properly until the 
> memory becomes available.  31DEC08 uses a lot more memory for the XAS TV than 
> previous versions and pseudo-AP tasks like IMAGR now can take more memory 
> than they used to take (although they take only what they need and only after 
> the task has started).  Try looking at "top" to see how memory is used.  If 
> your machines have < 1 Gbyte then I would expect problems in many cases.  At 
> 1 or 2 Gbyte, it would take heavier loading to cause problems (e.g. multiple 
> TVs, emacs, browsers, mail readers, etc.)

Thanks very much Eric, will check memory allocation.  However, I should 
point out that it happens even with running 'notv', and (by MERLIN 
standards) on modest data sets.

Please, is there any way to set the time out to a longer interval?

Thanks again for looking into this.

Anita