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Hi, I am attempting to relax the atomic coordinates of a system comprised of 152 atoms with LDA. I have softened my convergence criteria to get near the ground state for a similar system of 132 atoms and then tightened them after the initial relaxation in line to the smaller systems successfully, but the same processes has failed for systems with 116 and 152 atoms. I want to go larger then 152 with these systems but I appear to be stuck, my input is:

start c
title "c"
memory total 6.4 GB

permanent_dir /152
scratch_dir /152/Temp

geometry units angstroms noautoz noautosym
 load format xyz /152.xyz
end

driver
 maxiter 200
 xyz relaxed
 loose
end

basis spherical
 * library "TZVP (DFT Orbital)"
end

dft
 odft
 grid xcoarse
 direct
 xc slater vwn_5
end

property
 response  1 0.08564540
 damping 0.007
 convergence 1d-8
end

task dft optimize


with an output error after a few hours:
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 driver: task_gradient failed                   0
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  current input line :
    54: task dft optimize
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 There is an error related to the specified geometry
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 For more information see the NWChem manual at http://nwchemgit.github.io/index.php/NWChem_Documentation


 For further details see manual section:                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
 driver: task_gradient failed                   0
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Any feedback would be helpful. Thank you.