[Pw_forum] segmentation fault

Paolo Giannozzi giannozz at nest.sns.it
Sat Sep 18 22:02:58 CEST 2004


On Saturday 18 September 2004 18:46, Mousumi Upadhyay Kahaly wrote:

>        I am trying to run some cluster calculations. Till 16 atom cluster
> the run was going on fine. But, in the last run with 18 atoms,
> though i constructed the input file in exactly the similar manner, I am
> getting the msg
>                   "SEGMENTATION FAULT"

"segmentation fault" is a generic error message meaning more or
less "your process did something very wrong". Try to get more 
information on where the process stops and why (out of memory
maybe?)

Paolo

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