[SCore-users] Best way to increase the stacksize limit on MPI jobs?

[Atsushi HORI]

hi, all,

>Does anyone know if it is possible for an mpi processes to increase 
>the stack 
>size limits ? 
>
>
>I had this query from one of our users:
>
>
>>It appears that one of our users is having problems with stacksize 
>>limits in his SCore MPI program (VASP).  
>>
>>The command 
>>ulimit -s unlimited
>>works in a shell on the server, including within the shell script 
>>submitted to qsub. What is the best way to have this command executed on 
>>the relevant compute nodes (or somehow increase the stacksize to a 
>>larger value like 256 MB if unlimited is not possible)?
>
>ulimit sets the stack size for a shell, so is not probably not what is
>wanted. Probably this is a general programming problem not related to
>Score mpi.

Add "ulimit" in the file /etc/rc.d/init.d/scoutd to increase the 
stack limit.

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Atsushi HORI
SCore Developer
Swimmy Software, Inc.