AMBER Archive (2004)

Subject: Re: AMBER: ptraj hbond memory allocation on opteron

From: Fabian Boes (fabian.boes_at_itb.uni-stuttgart.de)
Date: Tue Dec 14 2004 - 08:33:42 CST

Dear Amber users,

i solved the problem by modifying the safe_malloc routine in
/src/ptraj/utility.c:

- safe_malloc(int size)

+ safe_malloc(size_t size)

Right now ptraj is running using 11 gb of ram.

Bye,

Fabian

> Hi,
>
>> ERROR in safe_malloc: Error in alloc of -2144460096 bytes
>
> ...You/ptraj seem to have requested more than 2GB of mem at once.
> Since safe_malloc takes an int (size) as argument and passes (size_t)
> size to the usual malloc, this fails. If you're running x86_64 linux,
> there might by routines that allow allocating more at once, but I don't
> know.
>
> good luck
> Andreas 

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Fabian Bös

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University of Stuttgart / Germany

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