[Wien] Does increasing shell values make sense here?

[Torsten Andersen]

Maybe, maybe not. To me it sounds like you should increase swap space. 
However, you may try to increase data and stack sizes as well.

Best regards,
Torsten Andersen.

Michael Frotscher wrote:
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> Hello, Wien-ML
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> Trying to calculate a rather large cell (beta-boron), lapw1 runs into the 
> following error:
> 
> FORTRAN Runtime ERROR:
>  Memory allocation failed
> ( 0)  0x0004f63c   f90$alloc + 0x4fc  [/home1/fcdv082/wien2k/lapw1]
> ( 1)  0x00038ad8   matrices$init_matrices + 0x75c  
> [/home1/fcdv082/wien2k/lapw1]
> ( 2)  0x0000f99c   coors + 0xc2c  [/home1/fcdv082/wien2k/lapw1]
> ( 3)  0x0000e034   calkpt + 0x8c  [/home1/fcdv082/wien2k/lapw1]
> ( 4)  0x0002c1e8   _start + 0xb0  [/home1/fcdv082/wien2k/lapw1]
> [2]   Done                 ( $remote $machine[$p]  ...
> 
> My shell values on that machine are:
> time(seconds)        unlimited
> file(blocks)         unlimited
> data(kbytes)         2015464
> stack(kbytes)        250000
> memory(kbytes)       unlimited
> coredump(blocks)     0
> nofiles(descriptors) 60
> 
> Would it help if I asked the sysadmin of that machine to increase one of those 
> values or are they sufficient?
> 
> Sincerely,
> - -- 
> Michael Frotscher
> Institute of Inorganic and Applied Chemistry
> University of Hamburg, Germany
> 
> 
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AG Hübner, Department of Physics, Kaiserslautern University, and
Condensed Matter Theory Group, Department of Physics, Uppsala University
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