On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Reid Rivenburgh <reidr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Dumb question - does this program require a lot of memory? Could the system > > run out of resources when you start the program so the system needs to kill > > it off in order to have enough resources to keep running? > > I was kind of curious about that myself, so I re-ran it with no spec > file. Here's its ps output: > > PID USER PRI NI VIRT RES SHR S CPU% MEM% TIME+ Command > 9704 reid 20 0 1724M 892 704 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ./algencan > > That 1724M looks a little scary. (I have 4 GB here.) > > I don't speak fortran too well, but the code does seem to allocate > some decently hefty amounts of memory, such as this: > > double precision nl(nmax),c(mmax),rho(mmax) > > where mmax is 500000. There must be others, too. Maybe you don't > want to run this thing on your low memory machine...! Thanks a lot! The mystery is solved: the program needs a lot of memory! Paul -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
