[Mesa-users] timestep_hold > model_number leads to infinite timestep retries

[Erica A Sawczynec]

Hi All,
	I have a model that I’ve been struggling to get to converge for a while. The model runs until it reaches 16 samples and then it gets stuck retrying the same time step until eventually the job times out. I turned on the report_why_dt_limits hoping that it would help me figure out why the model is getting stuck, but the output is "timestep_hold > model_number, so no timestep increase” which I don’t fully understand. I’ve attached my two inlists and the terminal output where the model begins to get stuck. I use MESA version r12115 with the accompanying SDK. 
Thanks!
Erica



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