[Mesa-users] Segfault when running the tutorial

[Francis Timmes]

see appendix A of mesa V

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019ApJS..243...10P/abstract

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> On Aug 29, 2019, at 1:11 PM, Croxmor Moraga <rodrigo.moraga.merino at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> It worked :) . Thanks a lot.
> By the way, what does the eosELM does actually?
> I mean, I know it have to do with some cache, and logs for the calculations. But what does it does exactly that is so necessary?
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> El jue., 29 ago. 2019 a las 13:08, Croxmor Moraga (<rodrigo.moraga.merino at gmail.com>) escribió:
> I will check it out, thanks.
> And what about my other question?
> 
> El jue., 29 ago. 2019 10:50, Francis Timmes <fxt44 at mac.com> escribió:
> mesa's ram requirements vary a lot depending on what is being modelled
> and which tables of data are being used. in this case, the ELM eos tables 
> are probably the primary memory hog. a perusual of archived threads in 
> https://lists.mesastar.org/pipermail/mesa-users/ suggests that 8 gb ram 
> is around the minimum, and 16 gb ram is better.
> 
> alternatively, try setting use_eosELM = .false. in controls and see how things go.
> this means using HELM instead of ELM (which was what previous mesa versions defaulted to). 
> this can make the convergence properties slightly worse in some cases, but will
> use less ram.
> 
> fxt
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> > On Aug 28, 2019, at 9:21 PM, Croxmor Moraga <rodrigo.moraga.merino at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > 8 gigabytes in my computer, and 5 in my vm, and 6 proccesators per thread in the vm
>