[Spice_discussion] msopck on MacOSX

[Ed Wright]

To: Naru Hirata
From: Ed Wright, JPL/NAIF



On Apr 6, 2005, at 9:47 PM, Naru HIRATA wrote:

> Dear NAIF guys,
>
> The MacOSX version of 'msopck' utility distributed at NAIF FTP server 
> doesn't work (stop with Segmentation fault error) on my PowerBook.
>
> My environment is...
> Hardware: PowerBook G4 15" 1.25GHz RAM 1GB
> OS: MacOSX 10.3.8 (7U16)
> toolkit version: N0058 (C language ver.)


Did you reset your stacksize shell parameter for your OS X shell?

The default OS X stacksize is insufficient for several SPICE utilities 
due to the need to allocate memory for large, static arrays. In tcsh, 
reset the stacksize limit with:

    limit stacksize 60megabytes

If using the bash shell, apply the ulimit command:

    ulimit -s 61440

Example:

skynet 11: limit
cputime         unlimited
filesize        unlimited
datasize        6144 kbytes
stacksize       61440 kbytes
coredumpsize    0 kbytes
memoryuse       unlimited
descriptors     256
memorylocked    unlimited
maxproc         100


skynet 12: ./msopck

MSOPCK Utility Program, Version 3.0.0, 2003-05-05; SPICE Toolkit Ver. 
N0058

Usage:

   > msopck <setup_file> <input_file> <output_ck_file>


As always,
Ed Wright
ed.wright at jpl.nasa.gov
1-818-354-0371

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