WUs aborting with Max memory exceeded

Charles Dennett
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Topic 187474

Recently I've had several workunits abort with a message such as this:

Aborting result H1_0267.9__0268.1_0.1_T08_Test02_2: exceeded memory limit 40000000.000000

This can be seen at http://einsteinathome.org/task/1094409
Note that was from the newest application version for Linux - 4.76. Others that had the same error under the earlier version (4.73 I belive) are:
http://einsteinathome.org/task/1093263
http://einsteinathome.org/task/1093262
http://einsteinathome.org/task/1092755
http://einsteinathome.org/task/1089500
http://einsteinathome.org/task/1076183
http://einsteinathome.org/task/1067551
http://einsteinathome.org/task/1062249

I didn't see any other reports of this kind of error.

I do compile my own Linux Boinc core client so that I have an optimized version. Don't know if this would cause the EAH application to produce this error or not.

Maybe someone at UWM wants to take a look. I'll be glad to supply other data as needed.

Charlie


Bruce Allen
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WUs aborting with Max memory exceeded

> Recently I've had several workunits abort with a message such as this:
>
> Aborting result H1_0267.9__0268.1_0.1_T08_Test02_2: exceeded memory limit
> 40000000.000000
>
> This can be seen at http://einsteinathome.org/task/1094409
> Note that was from the newest application version for Linux - 4.76. Others
> that had the same error under the earlier version (4.73 I belive) are:
> http://einsteinathome.org/task/1093263
> http://einsteinathome.org/task/1093262
> http://einsteinathome.org/task/1092755
> http://einsteinathome.org/task/1089500
> http://einsteinathome.org/task/1076183
> http://einsteinathome.org/task/1067551
> http://einsteinathome.org/task/1062249
>
>
> I didn't see any other reports of this kind of error.
>
> I do compile my own Linux Boinc core client so that I have an optimized
> version. Don't know if this would cause the EAH application to produce this
> error or not.
>
> Maybe someone at UWM wants to take a look. I'll be glad to supply other data
> as needed.

Charlie,

This was a bad oversight on my part. The memory requirements of the new 'coincidence' code are greater than that of the old code, and even there I hadn't left enough headroom. I've bumped the memory requirements up to 70MB, which I think should now be sufficient.

Bruce

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Paul D. Buck
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> This was a bad oversight on

Message 2428 in response to message 2427

> This was a bad oversight on my part. The memory requirements of the new
> 'coincidence' code are greater than that of the old code, and even there I
> hadn't left enough headroom. I've bumped the memory requirements up to 70MB,
> which I think should now be sufficient.
>
> Bruce

Added as FAQ item #494 ... I hope I have the explanation correct!

Remember, you can take pleasure in telling me how I don't know what I am talking about!

:)

Charles Dennett
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> > This was a bad oversight

Message 2429 in response to message 2427

>
> This was a bad oversight on my part. The memory requirements of the new
> 'coincidence' code are greater than that of the old code, and even there I
> hadn't left enough headroom. I've bumped the memory requirements up to 70MB,
> which I think should now be sufficient.
>
> Bruce
>

Thanks, Bruce!


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