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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Hi<br>It was the oom killer so does that mean out of memory? How many <br>processors would a slab calculation with 100-200 gold atoms typically need? I have tried a paw potential<br>with 30 ecutwc and 910 ecutrho (a dal corso) and a rel-paw with 30 ecutwc and 400 ecutrho.<br>I have also tried reducing ecutrho to 240 and the run still crashes.<br>Thanks<br>Vijaya<br><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div>> Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:10:58 +0200<br>> From: glawe@mpi-halle.mpg.de<br>> To: pw_forum@pwscf.org<br>> Subject: Re: [Pw_forum] exit status 137<br>> <br>> On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 04:56:59AM +0000, vijaya subramanian wrote:<br>> > When I tried scaling up the size of a slab scf calculation (I have to use a<br>> > large unit cell) I got<br>> > an exit status 137 message and the run crashed. No other error messages<br>> > where there in the output file. What does it mean-out of memory? <br>> <br>> In general this means:<br>> code has exited due to a signal, as the exit code is larger than 128.<br>> Subtract 128 to get the signal number: 9<br>> Signal 9 under a unix system means SIGKILL. So somebody or something has<br>> killed espresso. If you were running under a queuing system, check its log<br>> files (if you don't know where they are, you have to ask your local system<br>> administrator).<br>> If you were running without a queueing system on a linux machine, the OOM<br>> killer (part of the linux kernel) may be responsible: try 'dmesg' in a<br>> terminal or check the logfiles in /var/log/.<br>> <br>> -- <br>> Mit freundlichen Grüßen<br>> Henning Glawe<br>> <br>> Max-Planck-Institut für Mikrostrukturphysik<br>> Weinberg 2, 06120 Halle (Saale), Germany http://www.mpi-halle.de/~theory<br>> Phone: +49-345-5582-613 Fax: +49-345-5511223 Email: glawe@mpi-halle.de<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Pw_forum mailing list<br>> Pw_forum@pwscf.org<br>> http://pwscf.org/mailman/listinfo/pw_forum<br></div> </div></body>
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