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["Anglade Pierre-Matthieu" <anglade@gmail.com>]

Hi,
It  may happens on IBM systems that the maximal amount of memory
available for a single job  is just limited to a small (to very small)
part of the available memory. Have you checked if you are able to
allocate a 1GB array (with a small C program for instance) ?
PMA

On 2/2/07, yves.ferro@up.univ-mrs.fr <yves.ferro@up.univ-mrs.fr> wrote:
> Dear Abinit users,
>
> I know my problem is known on IBM AIX Power 4 computer, however I looked at 
> the FAQ and did not found a satisfactory answer.
>
> I just compiled the 5.2.4 abinit version" on an IBM AIX Power 4 computer.
> I try to run it (abinis) and get the error message below:
>
>
>
> ================================================================================
> P This job should need less than                    1339.190 Mbytes of memory.
>   Rough estimation (10% accuracy) of disk space for files :
>   WF disk file :   1056.679 Mbytes ; DEN or POT disk file :     10.127 Mbytes.
> ================================================================================
>
>  Biggest array : cg(disk), with   1056.6790 MBytes.
>
>  memana : ERROR -
>   Test failed to allocate an array of   1056.679 Mbytes
>   It is not worth to continue
>   Action : modify input variable to fit the available memory,
>   or increase limit on maximal array size.
>
>  leave_new : decision taken to exit ...
>
> ________________________________________________________________________
>
>
>
> I tried the option -bmxdata:2048000000 as described in the FAQ but whith no 
> success. However, the makefile has largely been modify since the answer of 
> the FAQ has been written. May be did I include it in a wrong place.
>
> Does somebody could help me please ?
>
> Thank tou very much
>
>
> Yves Ferro


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Pierre-Matthieu Anglade