Re: CthCreate failed to create fiber

From: Ajasja Ljubetič (ajasja.ljubetic_at_gmail.com)
Date: Thu Jun 09 2011 - 15:29:25 CDT

You were correct, the Win64-MPI build works fine.

Best regards,
Ajasja

On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 01:02, Jim Phillips <jim_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:

>
> Thanks for reporting this. Since this is a 32-bit build you'll run out of
> address space before you run out of memory. That said, the thread stacks
> are supposed to be 128K on both Linux and Windows, and you'll get 13*13*13+1
> = 2198 of them, so that would be at most 300 MB additional.
>
> We need to fix Charm++ to report the underlying error condition to see
> what's actually wrong. You might try the Win64-MPI build (it needs mpiexec
> from HPC Server).
>
> -Jim
>
>
>
> On Tue, 7 Jun 2011, Ajasja Ljubeti~M wrote:
>
> Hi,
>>
>> I just manage to produce the same error running the stmv benchmark on
>> win32.
>> I have 8 GB of ram, on linux the stmv needs about 800 MB.
>>
>> here are the important bits from the log file:
>>
>>
>> Info: NAMD 2.8 for Win32-multicore
>> Info: Based on Charm++/Converse 60303 for multicore-win32
>> Info: Built Sat May 28 11:36:37 CDT 2011 by jcphill on honor
>> Info: Running on 8 processors, 1 nodes, 1 physical nodes.
>> Info: CPU topology information available.
>> Info: Charm++/Converse parallel runtime startup completed at 0.252 s
>> .
>> .
>> .
>> Info: Startup phase 8 took 0.131 s, 774.531 MB of memory in use
>> Program finished.
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Ajasja
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 18:42, Jim Phillips <jim_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Does this happen for any simulation or just this one? The rest of the
>>> log
>>> might provide some useful information for diagnosing this error.
>>>
>>> -Jim
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, 3 Jun 2011, Patriche Simona wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear NAMD users,
>>>
>>>>
>>>> When I tried to perform the minimization step in my molecular dynamics
>>>> simulation, I received this error: CthCreate failed to create fiber.
>>>>
>>>> It is possible to receive this error because I have not enough resources
>>>> on my
>>>> system?
>>>>
>>>> Thank you in advance for any sugestions,
>>>>
>>>> Simona Patriche
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>

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