[Pw_forum] estimate of the memory required by a calculation

[Paolo Giannozzi]

Which version of the code are you referring to? in the 6.0 version, there
is nothing to explain: you get an estimate of the dynamically allocated
memory, which may or may not be accurate, but hopefully not dramatically off

Paolo

On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 5:36 PM, Aldo Ugolotti <a.ugolotti at campus.unimib.it>
wrote:

> Dear QE users,
>
> I'd like to ask how to interpret the memory allocation informations
> written in an output file for a simulation, in order to estimate the
> total RAM memory required for tat run. In particular I would like to use
> this info to understand and try to understand if the calculation has
> been interrupted (or, in my case, killed) because of a memory overuse.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Aldo Ugolotti
>
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> University of Milano-Bicocca,
> U5, Via R. Cozzi 55,
> 20125 Milano, Italy.
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