[Pw_forum] exit status 137

[vijaya subramanian]

Hi
It was the oom killer so does that mean out of memory?  How many 
processors would a slab calculation with 100-200 gold atoms typically need? I have tried a paw potential
with 30 ecutwc and 910 ecutrho (a dal corso) and a rel-paw with 30 ecutwc and 400 ecutrho.
I have also tried reducing ecutrho to 240 and the run still crashes.
Thanks
Vijaya

> Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:10:58 +0200
> From: glawe at mpi-halle.mpg.de
> To: pw_forum at pwscf.org
> Subject: Re: [Pw_forum] exit status 137
> 
> On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 04:56:59AM +0000, vijaya subramanian wrote:
> > When I tried scaling up the size of a slab scf calculation (I have to use a
> > large unit cell) I got
> > an exit status 137 message and the run crashed. No other error messages
> > where there in the output file.  What does it mean-out of memory? 
> 
> In general this means:
> code has exited due to a signal, as the exit code is larger than 128.
> Subtract 128 to get the signal number: 9
> Signal 9 under a unix system means SIGKILL. So somebody or something has
> killed espresso. If you were running under a queuing system, check its log
> files (if you don't know where they are, you have to ask your local system
> administrator).
> If you were running without a queueing system on a linux machine, the OOM
> killer (part of the linux kernel) may be responsible: try 'dmesg' in a
> terminal or check the logfiles in /var/log/.
> 
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