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[Alain Jacques <ajs.jacques@gmail.com>]

Depending on your architecture and compiler choice, you have to build an
abinit executable able to access more than 2GB of RAM. If this applies
to your configuration, look at mcmodel=medium compiler flag.

Kind regards,

Alain


kuroki@vos.nagaokaut.ac.jp wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
>
> I try to run the large system with 64 atoms on abinit-5.7.4.
>
> However the following error ocurred, though there are 24GB memory.
>
> I found the similar problems posted already.
>
> [abinit-forum] Out of memory error in GW screening calculation.
> [abinit-forum] How increase of limit memory?
> [abinit-forum] memana error
> [abinit-forum] memana's memory needs not met?
>
> In the 4th one, the parameter mkmem beeing 0 solved the error,
> but no respons about the "increase of memory limit" yet.
>
> How to increase the limit of memory?
> Is there the parameter to control the memory limitation?
>
> I want to know the meaning of the error message.
> If the solution (mkmem = 0) is true, this message is thought to be 
> NOT suitable, isn't it?
>
> ==================================================================
> memana : ERROR -
>   Test failed to allocate    5060.225 Mbytes
>   It is not worth to continue
>   Action : modify input variable to fit the available memory.
>   or increase limit on available memory.
> ==================================================================
> kuroki@iodine-t2:~/abinit-5.7.4/CuAlS2/Cu16Al16S32$ free
>            total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:    24937664    5626760   19310904          0      83156    5308000
> -/+ buffers/cache:     235604 24702060
> Swap:    6000236          0    6000236
> ==================================================================
>
> Thank you for your time!
>
> Nagaoka University of Technology, JAPAN
> Assistant Professor
> Yuichiro KUROKI
>