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[ธนูสิทธิ์ บุรินทร์ประโคน <thanusit@kku.ac.th>]

Dear Gavin

The log file suggests you need at least 2 Gb of Ram, and  please try
setting "mkmem 0" in the input files. It might help.

Regards,
Thanusit Burinprakhon

> On December 15, 2007 5:14:11 AM ICT, "Gavin Beatty"
<gavinbeatty@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have a question about abinit's memory needs. Below is an excerpt
> from the log. Abinit requires ~1850 Mb of space and I have more than
> enough disc space for this.
> 
> So, why the error? Does abinit require more swap space or more RAM? I
> cannot find any more info about how memana works and I can't read
> fortran :P I'd be grateful for any help.
> 
> Thank you,
> Gavin
> 
> 
> [snip]
>  memory : analysis of memory needs
>
================================================================================
>  Values of the parameters that define the memory need for DATASET  2.
>    intxc =         0  ionmov =         0    iscf =        -3     ixc =
        1
>   lmnmax =         2   lnmax =         2   mband =        35  mffmem =
        1
> P  mgfft =        72   mkmem =      4000 mpssoang=         3     mpw =
      872
>   mqgrid =      3001   natom =        10    nfft =     62208    nkpt =
     4000
>   nloalg =         4  nspden =         1 nspinor =         1  nsppol =
        1
>     nsym =         1  n1xccc =      2501  ntypat =         3  occopt =
        1
>
================================================================================
> P This job should need less than                    1959.350 Mbytes of
memory.
>   Rough estimation (10% accuracy) of disk space for files :
>   WF disk file :   1862.795 Mbytes ; DEN or POT disk file :      0.477
Mbytes.
>
================================================================================
> 
>  Biggest array : cg(disk), with   1862.7950 MBytes.
> 
>  memana : ERROR -
>   Test failed to allocate an array of   1862.795 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 ...
> 
> 
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