[Wien] convergence failed!

Peter Blaha pblaha at zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at
Fri Jun 11 07:32:37 CEST 2004


> Dear everyone:
>     I have changed "set iter" and "set riter" in the runsp_lapw from 20 to 60, but the SCF still stops after running 20 cycles without reaching the  convergence criterion requested.would you mind telling me what i should to resolve the problem? Thanks in advance!

Don't change the code, unless you know what you are doing. Instead, read
the manual or use:
run_lapw -h

it will tell you that you can request more iterations using eg.
run_lapw -i 60

Regards
                                      P.Blaha
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