[Pw_forum] cannot allocate memory error

[Duy Le]

On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Elie Moujaes
<elie.moujaes at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> Dear all,
> I am having a problem when I am running a scf calculation for a 72-atom
> supercell of Carbon grain boundaries. The calculations start and then after
> a few minutes stop with the following error:
> Operating system error: Cannot allocate memory
> operating system error: cannot allocate memory
> out of memory
> Can anyone tell me what is going on? I am not sure if it is really a memory
> problem or something else?
Yes. It said that. Your system is quite large for running on a
personal desktop. Check output to see how much memory you need for
this system.
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Duy Le
PhD Candidate
Department of Physics
University of Central Florida.

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