[Molpro-user] Inconsistent memory 2006.1

[Andy May]

Yavuz,

Could you please send the input for the job.

Thanks,

Andy

dedey at alumni.bilkent.edu.tr wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have problems in running Molpro in parallel. The serial job invoked by
> the command below works fine. When I request a parallel job with the
> second command below I see the 8 compute processes start on the compute
> node but after it enters the MULTI code it dies with the error:
> 
>  USED MEMORY IN cislow:        22302786  22305334  22305334  22305334
> 22305334  22305334  22305334  22305334
>  FREE MEMORY IN cislow:        77697114  77694566  77694566  77694566
> 77694566  77694566  77694566  77694566
>  ? Error
>  ?  Inconsistent memory
>  ? The problem occurs in check_address
> 
>  GA ERROR fehler on processor   0
>  CLOSEW FILE 31  NAME=eaf_T3100013063.TMP  IMPLEMENTATION=eaf   HANDLE=    2
> 
>>From the error printed above it is seen that one of the eight compute
> processes tries to allocate a slightly smaller memory. The
> "check_address" mentioned in the error report can be found in the utils.f
> source file. I played with the -m and -G flags to increase and decrease
> the memory, but no success out of tens of trials. Specification of the
> memory from the input file also did not work. Jobs with 2 or 4 or more
> than 8 CPUs also die giving the same error.
> 
> Am I missing something obvious? Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks in advance...
> 
> Yavuz
> 
> 
> The successfull serial run is with this command in the PBS script:
> 
> molpro -I $PWD -W /N/dc/scratch/$USER -d /N/dc/scratch/$USER -o
> YD_WO_M1.mout YD_WO_M1.mlp
> 
> The parallel jobs dying are initiated by this command:
> 
> molpro -I $PWD -W /N/dc/scratch/$USER -d /N/dc/scratch/$USER -o
> YD_WO_M2.mout -n 8 YD_WO_M2.mlp
> 
> Other errors of the same type with different number of cores are:
> 
>  ITER. MIC  NCI  NEG     ENERGY(VAR)     ENERGY(PROJ)   ENERGY CHANGE    
> GRAD(0)  GRAD(ORB)   GRAD(CI)     STEP       TIME
> 
>  USED MEMORY IN cislow:        11296035  11411293  11411293  11411293 
> 11411293  11411293  11411293  11411293  11411293  11411293
>                                11411293  11411293  11411293  11411293 
> 11411293  11411293
>  FREE MEMORY IN cislow:        88703865  88588607  88588607  88588607 
> 88588607  88588607  88588607  88588607  88588607  88588607
>                                88588607  88588607  88588607  88588607 
> 88588607  88588607
>  ? Error
>  ?  Inconsistent memory
>  ? The problem occurs in check_address
> 
> 
>  ITER. MIC  NCI  NEG     ENERGY(VAR)     ENERGY(PROJ)   ENERGY CHANGE    
> GRAD(0)  GRAD(ORB)   GRAD(CI)     STEP       TIME
> 
>  USED MEMORY IN cislow:        11296035  11411293  11411293  11411293 
> 11411293  11411293  11411293  11411293  11411293  11411293
>                                11411293  11411293  11411293  11411293 
> 11411293  11411293
>  FREE MEMORY IN cislow:        38703865  38588607  38588607  38588607 
> 38588607  38588607  38588607  38588607  38588607  38588607
>                                38588607  38588607  38588607  38588607 
> 38588607  38588607
>  ? Error
>  ?  Inconsistent memory
>  ? The problem occurs in check_address
> 
>  ITER. MIC  NCI  NEG     ENERGY(VAR)     ENERGY(PROJ)   ENERGY CHANGE    
> GRAD(0)  GRAD(ORB)   GRAD(CI)     STEP       TIME
> 
>  USED MEMORY IN cislow:        11296035  11411293  11411293  11411293 
> 11411293  11411293  11411293  11411293  11411293  11411293
>                                11411293  11411293  11411293  11411293 
> 11411293  11411293
>  FREE MEMORY IN cislow:        25404025  25288767  25288767  25288767 
> 25288767  25288767  25288767  25288767  25288767  25288767
>                                25288767  25288767  25288767  25288767 
> 25288767  25288767
>  ? Error
>  ?  Inconsistent memory
>  ? The problem occurs in check_address
> 
>  GA ERROR fehler on processor   0
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> Yavuz Dede, Ph.D.
> Theo./Comp. Chem.
> 
> IU Bloomington - USA
> 
> METU Ankara - TURKEY
> 
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