[Pw_forum] Segmentation Fault

Paolo Giannozzi giannozz at nest.sns.it
Sat Jan 15 22:41:53 CET 2005


On Thursday 13 January 2005 09:38, ma Yanming wrote:

> [...] when I tried to run the pw.x for the same system in my linux
> machine, I met the problem "Segmentation Fault". My linux machine is
> Redhat9 and the compiler is pgi5.1. I noticed that "Segmentation Fault" is
> usually related to the limits of the stacksixe, filesize, or datasize, etc.

there is an item in the manual dedicated to this case. "Segmentation
fault" may also mean "not enough memory available". There is an
auxiliary code "memory.x" that reads the input data and produces a 
rough estimate of the needed memory. 

Paolo






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