<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:
"Times New Roman",serif">Dear CP2K users and developers,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:
"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:
"Times New Roman",serif">I have been running cp2k-6.1 on Linux Centos 6.8 (24
CPU cores with 32GB ram) with a system of 1 NaBr pair solvated in 64 water
molecules in a cubic PBC box. Some of the simulations will slow down after
running for a while. The average time needed for a SCF step increases from 1.0
s to 2.0 s gradually after a random amount of time. The cp2k binary was
compiled with gcc-4.9.4 and openmpi-2.1.5. I have tried different combinations
of mpi ranks and openmp threads and still observed the slowdown. The speed
would be back to normal after cleaning the cache via /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches,
but after a while, it slows down again. The input and arch files are attached.
Do you have any idea what is causing the slowdown and how to fix the problem?
Any comment will be much appreciated.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:
"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></p></div>