<div dir="ltr">Dear Professor Giannozzi and Spiga,<div><br></div><div>I think it is memory, because the error message is like:</div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">: 02/27/2014 14:06:20| main|zeta27|W|job 221982 exceeds job hard limit "h_vmem" of queue</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> (2871259136.00000 > limit:</span><a href="tel:2147483648" value="+12147483648" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">2147483648</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">.00000) - sending SIGKILL</span><br>
</div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">I normally used h_stak=128M, it is working fine.</span><br></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 7:30 AM, Paolo Giannozzi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paolo.giannozzi@uniud.it" target="_blank">paolo.giannozzi@uniud.it</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">On Thu, 2014-02-27 at 17:30 -0600, Peng Chen wrote:<br>
> P.S. Most of the jobs failed at the beginning of scf calculation, and<br>
> the length of output scf file is zero.<br>
<br>
</div>are you sure the problem is the size of the RAM and not the size of<br>
the stack?<br>
<br>
P.<br>
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><br>
><br>
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 5:09 PM, Peng Chen <<a href="mailto:pchen229@illinois.edu">pchen229@illinois.edu</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
> Dear QE users,<br>
><br>
><br>
> Recently, our workstation is updated and there is a hard limit<br>
> on memory (2G per core). Some of QE jobs are constantly failed<br>
> (not always) because one of the MPI processes exceeded the RAM<br>
> limit and was killed. I am wondering if there is a way to<br>
> distribute using memory more evenly in every core.<br>
><br>
><br>
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