[27742] in Athena Bugs
Debathena: gamess
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (griffend@mit.edu)
Wed Dec 5 10:25:21 2018
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2018 10:25:09 -0500
From: griffend@mit.edu
Message-Id: <201812051525.wB5FP9TH009719@outgoing.mit.edu>
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System name: M4-167-2
Type: x86_64
Display type: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 06)
Shell: /bin/bash
Window manager: unknown
Desktop session: gnome
1) What were you trying to do?
Tried to connect to shared memory with the command "sudo mit/gamess/setsharedmem"
2) What happened?
- The usual prompt that appears when typing in the command (Attention: You are on a Debathena cluster machine...etc.) did not appear.
- When running GAMESS, the program immediately returned "error code 911"
- The output file contains a line reading the following:
DDI Process 1: shmget returned an error.
Error EINVAL: Attempting to create 160525768 bytes of shared memory.
Check system limits on the size of SysV shared memory segments.
3) What should have happened?
- The sudo command should have worked properly, and allowed me to access shared memory.
- The GAMESS program should have run without a DDI kick error.
4) Does this problem happen only on this workstation, or other workstations?
This problem has happened on multiple workstations. Usually, what happens is I can manage to squeeze 3-4 successful runs out of each Athena cluster, and then the GAMESS program starts returning error code 911. I then have to switch to a new cluster, which is again good for only 3-4 runs but soon after begins returning these errors again.
5) If you were following instructions, please include the URL or a
description of the documentation:
(e.g. a "problem set for 18.03" or http://ist.mit.edu)
Following the GAMESS instructions on the IS&T website: http://ist.mit.edu/node/1408#GAMESS
