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Tsubasa
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Error without error files

Post by Tsubasa »

Hello,

I faced a problem.
Sometimes simulations stopped and some message appeared without error files.
There is no error files and no error message in calculation log.
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Do someone know about this?

Best regards,
Tsubasa
Yvan Fournier
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Re: Error without error files

Post by Yvan Fournier »

Hello,

Though this might not a defined by a norm, it seems many MPI environments use the signal number that crashed the compilation from a single process + 128 to define the returned signal number.

So 137 would be 128 + 9, meaning the computation is killed by signal 9 (same as "kill -9", see also /usr/include/bits/signum.h on must systems).

This signal cannot be intercepted, so the code does not have the time to write a backtrace.

This probably means you system or batch scheduler is killing the computation. It might have run out of allocated time.
If you have no batch scheduler (probably not on a simple virtual machine), if the memory requirements for the code exceed that allocated to the virtual machine, you might also have this error, or a cleaner stop, depending on how fast memory requirements grow. Not sure what other conditions can cause this.

Best regards,

Yvan
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