[Wien] error "setrlimit(): Invalid argument"

Fri Jul 29 17:24:49 CEST 2011

Please check your version of the two attached files against what you
have in SRC_lapw0,1,2 . (I think the attached is the latest version,
but please also check the Wien2k site, just one of SRC_lapw0.) If they
are different, copy what you have "somewhere" then replace them in
SRC_lapw0 (as a test), recompile and just run "x lapw0 -p".

This may be one of many things, but it is related to these files:
a) Your C compiler is strange (which did you use, icc or gcc?)
b) Your sysadmin has prevented you as a user from making the call

At worst, comment out the w2k_extend_limits() subroutine. Maybe your
sysadmin can help work out what is appropriate for your system --
unfortunately C is not as standard as fortran. (We can then patch
around this in the future.)

Quick explanation. If you look back in the mailing list, you will find
about once a week, an error/email associated with ulimit. This got
worse with openmpi since in this code there is no way to set the
stacksize. This subroutine does it for you, but is not working on your
system for some reason. There was a similar bug on a Mac which I
believe is cured with this version.

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Dr Qiwen  YAO <Yao.Qiwen at nims.go.jp> wrote:
> Dear Wien2k users,
>
> I am now facing a new but related error to the previous one: Now the error says: setrlimit(): Invalid argument   stop error
> My OS: Cluster, PBS Pro (SGI ProPack6SP2 AltixXE 250 2CPU/8core 32GB Memory), Suse Enterprise Server 10 (x86-64), I am using ssh login.
>
> After I have the supercell struct file in place and init_lapw, in the working directory I do "run_lapw -p -ec 0.0001"  - then instantly I got the above mentioned error, the lapw does not seem to start running at all.
>
> A "ls -l *.error" gives four error files but all of them are of size of zero.
>
> Originally I traced the similar error to the Stack size setting problem, and with Professor Marks' help I had commented out the line "ulimit -s unlimit" out from my .bashrc file, and I have logout the cluster and relogin more than twice.
>
> I search the email achieve without result, I googled it but it points to me the same place as I previously had (Stack Size setting issue - but that is no an issue at lest in the .bashrc file anymore) - Now I don't know where to go from here.
>
> Any help/hint would be much appreciated.
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> Kind regards,
> Qiwen
>
> ===========
>
> ------Original Message------
> From:"Laurence Marks"<L-marks at northwestern.edu>
> To:"A Mailing list for WIEN2k users"<wien at zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at>
> Cc:
> Subject:Re: [Wien] commenting out the line "ulimit -s unlimit" from .bashrc?
> Date:07/29/2011 06:14:14 AM(-0500)
>>Delete the line -- if he has already set it as unlimited.
>>
>>On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 5:19 AM, Dr Qiwen  YAO <Yao.Qiwen at nims.go.jp> wrote:
>>> Dear Wien2k users,
>>> I've come across an issue when running WIEN2k 11 in a cluster (PBS Pro, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (x86_64)) for the Stack size setting permission: It was the system policy that a user is not allowed to set the stack size in anyway.  That is:
>>> "ulimit -s whateveramount" is not allowed - so for the line inserted in my .bashrc file by WIEN, how do I go around this problem? The system support is not changing anything for this in his side (but he said that "the stack size is unlimited on computer nodes when users run jobs"). So can I just delete this line from the .bashrc file? Would that affect the WIEN2k execution?
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>>
>>> Qiwen Yao
>>>
>>> **********************************************************
>>>
>>> Dr QiWen YAO
>>>
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>>>
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>>>
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>>
>>
>>
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>
> Dr QiWen YAO
>
> JSPS Fellow
> Multifunctional Materials Group
> Optical and Electronic Materials Unit
> Environment and Energy Materials Research Division
>
> National Institute for Materials Science
>
> 1-2-1 Sengen, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0047, Japan
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Laurence Marks
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
MSE Rm 2036 Cook Hall
2220 N Campus Drive
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL 60208, USA
Tel: (847) 491-3996 Fax: (847) 491-7820
email: L-marks at northwestern dot edu
Web: www.numis.northwestern.edu
Chair, Commission on Electron Crystallography of IUCR
www.numis.northwestern.edu/
Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what
nobody else has thought
Albert Szent-Gyorgi
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