[QE-users] Fwd: projwfc.x out of memory

Giuseppe Mattioli giuseppe.mattioli at ism.cnr.it
Wed Mar 28 11:27:34 CEST 2018



Dear Aldo
It is impossible to help you with such a scarce information on your  
system and on QE version.
Is the error reproducible on your machine with a small(er) system we  
can easily run in a few minutes on local resources?
HTH
Giuseppe

Quoting Aldo Ugolotti <a.ugolotti at campus.unimib.it>:

> Dear QE Users,
>
> I am recently encountering an error running projwfc.x. The nscf
> calculation to increase the k points mesh runs smoothly, however few
> minutes after starting the projwfc.x task, the process is killed by the
> system with an "out of memory" message. This happens on a large cluster
> with 180 Gb di memory per node. This is not resolved if I reduce the
> energy window into which the dos is calculated.
>
> Is there a way to resolve the issue?
>
> Regards,
>
> -- 
> Aldo Ugolotti
>
> PhD student
> Materials Science Dept. U5,
> Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
> via Cozzi 55,
> 20125 Milano (MI)
> Italy
> e-mail: a.ugolotti at campus.unimib.it
>
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