[mesa-users] too many backups

[Philip D. Hall]

Hi Amber,

Problems with relax mass might be because the mass is being changed too
fast. Fixing the maximum mdot using lg_max_abs_mdot might help.

Philip D. Hall
Armagh Observatory

On 20 October 2015 at 04:53, Robert Farmer <rjfarmer at asu.edu> wrote:

> Tried setting the numbers to something very big?
>
> Rob
>
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 8:35 PM, amber lauer <alauer1 at lsu.edu> wrote:
>
>> I'm running an old model provided to my by X. Zhang from the paper here:
>>
>> http://mnras.oxfordjournals.org/content/445/1/660.short
>>
>> The model is for MESA 4028, which I have installed, and I"m using the SDK
>> from 6/2012 (Frank provided a whole bunch of old SDK's to me a while back).
>> I'm running into convergence errors.
>> ____________________________________________________
>>  stopping because of convergence problems -- too many backups
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>                     failed in relax mass
>>  star_relax_mass ierr          -1
>>
>>  do_star_job_controls_after ierr          -1
>> __________________________________________________
>>
>> I added both
>>
>> relax_max_number_backups=-1
>> max_number_backups= -1
>>
>> and still getting this error. Any help is appreciated.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Amber Lauer. M.S. Physics
>> PhD Candidate,
>> Graduate School of Physics,
>> Louisiana State University
>>
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