[Mesa-users] 'Killing' Simulation

[Warrick Ball]

Hi Bisi,

This is generally an indication that the operating system has decided to terminate your job, which can be for a number of reasons but is usually, in my experience, because you've run out of RAM.

There are a number of ways of trying to work around this but it's difficult to say more without a much more detailed description of what you're trying to do, as Anne has pointed out.

For what it's worth, you can try turning on the basic "garbage collector":

     https://docs.mesastar.org/en/release-r22.05.1/reference/star_job.html#num-steps-for-garbage-collection

which might help if the main problem is a long running job that's building up a lot of EOS tables in memory.

If you're using a virtual machine, you might need to allocate more RAM to it.

Cheers,
Warrick

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Warrick Ball
Postdoc, School of Physics and Astronomy
University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT
W.H.Ball at bham.ac.uk
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On Wed, 20 Jul 2022, mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org wrote:

> Hi All,
> Please what do I need to do when my simulation gets 'killed'. 
> Thank you
> 
> Bisi
> 
>