[CP2K-user] [CP2K:17334] Re: Operating system error: Cannot allocate memory Allocation would exceed memory limit

[Jessie wang]

Dear Mat,

Thank you so much for the reply. 

I tried a lot but none of them works. So I re-compiled cp2k and now it 
looks fine ~

Restart and recompile are the most useful strategies, lol ~

Best
Jessie

On Tuesday, July 19, 2022 at 7:20:38 PM UTC+8 mattwa... at gmail.com wrote:

> Hello,
> without full setup we can't completely reproduce your problem.
> The slowdown sounds like a memory leak - this is unlikely to come from 
> CP2K itself as it is pretty well tested for such calculations. 
> The later message suggests that your MPI setup might be causing the 
> problem. Do you have different MPI environments on your cluster you could 
> try or are there FAQs with common problems that might suggest a solution?
> You could try just running without MPI using a cp2k.ssmp executable and 
> see if the memory problem went away.
> Without full details probably can't say anything else. I'd suggest talking 
> to your cluster support and see if they can suggest something.
> Matt
>
> On Tuesday, 19 July 2022 at 12:02:08 UTC+1 wangch... at gmail.com wrote:
>
>> Another failed apears~
>>
>> [image: QQ20220719-190139 at 2x.png]
>> On Tuesday, July 19, 2022 at 6:24:21 PM UTC+8 Jessie wang wrote:
>>
>>> Dear All,
>>>
>>> I am performing a geometry optimization of a Au cluster by 1 node, 96 
>>> core,  using PBE and DZVP-MOLOPT-SR-GTH. I think this should be a simple 
>>> process, but it went wrong. 
>>>
>>> At the beginning it went well and each SCF step took 7~8s and SCF 
>>> converged very fast. But after 1-2 hours it became very slow, each SCF step 
>>> took several hundred seconds and the 3000s. And finally it went down. I 
>>> tried it several times until I noticed that the memory occupied by cp2k was 
>>> increasing linearly, i.e. it never released the memory. 
>>>
>>> I tried cp2k9.1 and cp2k8.3, all went wrong.I’m really confused and 
>>> don’t know what to do.
>>>
>>> I am really appreaciate it if you can help me with this problem.
>>>
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Jessie
>>>
>>

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