<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Hi Marivi,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div>The only time MAKER uses the ALRM signal is during exit. Sometimes MPI_Finalize can freeze (it has to do with the fact it is being called from Perl). So we set an alarm just in case. Then if it takes to long we assume it is frozen and let things exit in a less than graceful way rather than let it block forever (it is already finished after all). The complaint you get may be because your system doesn’t support the alarm signal or forks.pm (which tries to intercept signals) is having an issue. Or it may just be ugliness related to parts of the process being killed with other parts still being active (it is an ungraceful exit after all). Or it may be another source of the ALRM all together (but I assume it is the MAKER ALRM given that it happens right after MAKER says it is finished). <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class="">Carson</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 27, 2017, at 1:03 PM, Marivi Colle <<a href="mailto:collemar@msu.edu" class="">collemar@msu.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Hi Carson,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">After running MAKER, I checked my std output and here's the message at the end of the file. I was wondering what this warning message means?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">Start_time: 1508465182</div><div class="">End_time: 1508950543</div><div class="">Elapsed: 485361</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Maker is now finished!!!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Argument "ALRM" isn't numeric in exit at /opt/software/BioPerl/1.6.924--GCC-4.4.7/lib64/perl5/<a href="http://forks.pm/" class="">forks.pm</a> line 2184.</div><div class="">Argument "ALRM" isn't numeric in exit at /opt/software/BioPerl/1.6.924--GCC-4.4.7/lib64/perl5/<a href="http://forks.pm/" class="">forks.pm</a> line 2184.</div><div class="">Argument "ALRM" isn't numeric in exit at /opt/software/BioPerl/1.6.924--GCC-4.4.7/lib64/perl5/<a href="http://forks.pm/" class="">forks.pm</a> line 2184.</div><div class="">Argument "ALRM" isn't numeric in exit at /opt/software/BioPerl/1.6.924--GCC-4.4.7/lib64/perl5/<a href="http://forks.pm/" class="">forks.pm</a> line 2184</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you.</div><div class="">Marivi</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>-- <br class=""><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px" class=""><font color="#0000bf" face="arial narrow" size="2" class=""><b class="">Marivi G. Colle</b></font></div><div class=""><font color="#0000bf" face="Arial Narrow" size="2" class="">Research Associate</font></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px" class=""><font color="#0000bf" face="Arial Narrow" size="2" class="">Department of Horticulture</font></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px" class=""><font color="#0000bf" face="arial narrow" size="2" class="">Michigan State University</font></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px" class=""><font color="#0000bf" face="Arial Narrow" size="2" class="">1066 Bogue St., East Lansing<br class="">Michigan 48824-1325, USA</font></div></div></div></div></div>
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