[Wien] Wien2k stops completely

[Michael Gurnett]

Only time I saw behaviour like this it turned out that one of the memory
sticks was bad on the computer. Could be worth doing a memcheck.

Michael

On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 14:58 +0800, jjlee_nsrrc wrote:
> Dear Dr. Konior
> 
> 
> 
>       I also encountered the same situation, most interesting part is, 
> everytime the crash point is different. Once upon a time, the identiacl job 
> can run more than 40 cycles, but most of time, only one cycle, then the 
> computer is totally crashed. Until now, I do not know how can I deal with 
> it. I also tried many different Linux system and compiler, but same 
> situation.
> 
> ps, I use 2 X Xeon 3.2 CPU, 4 GB Priority check ram, mother board is TYAN 
> S2676
> 
> 
> Sincerely yours
> 
> 
> jjlee
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <konior at if.uj.edu.pl>
> To: "A Mailing list for WIEN2k users" <wien at zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at>
> Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 2:24 AM
> Subject: [Wien] Wien2k stops completely
> 
> 
> > Dear Wien2k users,
> >
> > We installed Wien2k and run test for simple systems without any problem.
> >
> > Then, the trouble came when I started calculations for bigger systems, 
> > around 20 atoms par
> > unit cell or more. For some unknown reasons, the 'lapw1c' part either 
> > stops the whole
> > computer completely or sometimes makes the computer reset. Even more 
> > surprisingly, I
> > checked that running Wien2k with for the same system generally goes 
> > further (in time, but
> > not always till the end of the iteration) if simultaneously another 
> > program is running.
> >
> > The machine is 2 x Xeon 3.2 GHz with 8 GB RAM, plus the Mandriva Linux, 
> > the compiler is
> > Lahey Fortran 95 for Linux. Previously, with the Fedora Linux plus IFORT I 
> > found the same
> > behavior.
> >
> > I run Wien2k on many variations, on one, two, three, or four processors, 
> > alone or with some
> > other programs running. I suspect that probably our machine (memory, 
> > motherboard,
> > processor) has some failure, but how to prove it?
> >
> > Did anyone of you have similar problems? Any help or suggestions would be 
> > appreciated.
> >
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > --
> > Jerzy Konior
> > Institute of Physics
> > Jagellonian University
> > Krakow, Poland
> >
> >
> > Pozdrawiam,
> >
> > --
> > Jerzy Konior
> >
> >
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