[ssml] problems with blastpgp on x86_64 machines

[Kevin Karplus]

I've been having trouble with blastpgp (the program that is the core
of psi-blast) crashing on my cluster of x86_64 machines.  The crash is
not consistent---rerunning the same jobs can cause everything to
complete fine, but is frequent enough to be a serious problem (2/3 of
the jobs in a recent run crashed---on rerunning about 1/3 of the
previously crashed ones completed ok).

About the only symptom I'm seeing besides the crashes is 
[blastpgp] WARNING:  [000.000]  Failed to access string index ISAM Error code is -5
but that isn't even coming from the times that blastpgp is crashing!

The same jobs run on older 32-bit machines do not seem to crash.

I'm running fairly recent (Mar 2007?) of the software.

Anyone have any suggestions?

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