[Octopus-users] Too large memory to compile

Xavier Andrade xavier at tddft.org
Thu Mar 6 17:24:31 WET 2008


Hi,

This is a bug in gfortran <= 4.2 that it is triggered when octopus is 
compiled in parallel, unfortunately we don't know any work around. You 
either have to update to a prerelease of 4.3 of gfortran or use another 
compiler.

Cheers,

Xavier

On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, lan haiping wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> I want to compile parallel version of octopus 3.0 on my laptop ,but failed.
> The compilation stop with error that 'virtual  memory exhausted ' when
> processing with
> poisson_oct.f90.
> My laptop is with 2GB memory and 2GB swap space, and f90 compilor is
> gfortran.
> Is there any suggestion avoiding such behavior ?
> My configure setting is './configure --prefix=/opt/octopus
> --with-lapack=/usr/lib/liblapack.so.3 --with-fft=fftw3
> --with-fft-lib=/usr/lib/libfftw3.so.3 --enable-mpi CC=mpicc  F90=mpif90 '
>
> Best,
> -- 
> Hai-Ping Lan
> Department of Electronics ,
> Peking University , Bejing, 100871
> lanhaiping at gmail.com, hplan at pku.edu.cn
>


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