"sym movecs adapt: no significant component?" Error


Clicked A Few Times
I get the following error message when i run a TDDFT calculation with CAM-B3LYP for a radical cation

"sym_movecs_adapt: no significant component? 0", I am not sure what it means.

echo

start molecule

MEMORY 7500 mb
title "3_10 Helix Radical Cation n=3"
charge 1

geometry units angstroms print xyz autosym
   C       -1.22260        5.98400       -1.84890
   O       -2.21620        6.69620       -1.98260
   C       -0.79600        5.08240       -2.93470
   C        0.30150        4.24020       -2.96800
   C       -1.47140        4.92970       -4.20660
   N        0.33860        3.57760       -4.16750
   C       -0.73460        3.97420       -4.95260
   C       -2.62270        5.50160       -4.77920
   C       -1.10580        3.57020       -6.24000
   C       -2.99640        5.10460       -6.05850
   C       -2.24810        4.15030       -6.78210
   H        1.08420        4.07640       -2.23880
   H        1.05480        2.92230       -4.44500
   H       -3.19130        6.24030       -4.22570
   H       -0.52800        2.83500       -6.79470
   H       -3.88190        5.53890       -6.51500
   H       -2.56900        3.86390       -7.78010
   N       -0.43950        6.06130       -0.60720
   C       -1.03880        7.03590        0.28190
   C       -1.43070        6.38200        1.59920
   H       -0.32750        7.83950        0.47260
   H       -1.93400        7.44000       -0.19070
   N       -1.68620        5.07210        1.56350
   O       -1.50130        7.04800        2.62950
   C       -2.06920        4.33400        2.75020
   H       -1.61040        4.58140        0.68390
   C       -1.11620        4.64090        3.89650
   H       -3.08390        4.60950        3.03760
   H       -2.02450        3.26720        2.53110
   N        0.11690        5.02760        3.56150
   O       -1.48750        4.53040        5.06290
   C        1.11660        5.34840        4.56020
   H        0.35990        5.09870        2.58380
   C        0.54270        6.30230        5.59810
   H        1.44640        4.43280        5.05140
   H        1.96280        5.82930        4.06960
   N        0.36740        5.89190        6.85910
   O        0.23310        7.47700        5.26980
   C       -0.12120        6.61040        7.97530
   H        0.64420        4.93170        7.03120
   C       -0.54500        7.94520        7.90890
   C       -0.18220        5.93670        9.20680
   C       -1.02000        8.58020        9.05930
   H       -0.49870        8.47680        6.96790
   C       -0.65570        6.57200       10.35020
   H        0.15130        4.90280        9.27440
   C       -1.07920        7.90290       10.27930
   H       -1.34500        9.61740        8.99500
   H       -0.69870        6.04940       11.30090
   O       -1.53880        8.48320       11.43710
   H       -1.79090        9.40370       11.26510
   H        0.38000        5.52430       -0.40720
end

basis
  * library 6-31+G*
end

DFT
 xc xcamb88 1.00 lyp 0.81 vwn_5 0.19 hfexch 1.00
 cam 0.33 cam_alpha 0.19 cam_beta 0.46
 DIRECT
 mult 2
 ITERATIONS 500
END
TDDFT
 RPA
 NROOTS 5
 TARGET 1
END
TASK TDDFT ENERGY

Forum Regular
As far as I can see the basis set you are using contains linear dependencies. The code removes those and zeroes the linearly dependent vectors. It seems that the routine that purifies the symmetry of the orbitals gets confused about these zero vectors. I am having a closer look to see where exactly this happens and fix this.

Clicked A Few Times
Quote:Huub Aug 10th 11:04 am
As far as I can see the basis set you are using contains linear dependencies. The code removes those and zeroes the linearly dependent vectors. It seems that the routine that purifies the symmetry of the orbitals gets confused about these zero vectors. I am having a closer look to see where exactly this happens and fix this.


Great, thanks very much

Forum Regular
A fix for this problem has just been checked in into the development version. Please drop me a line if you need a patch.

Clicked A Few Times
Memory Issues: SHMMAX
Quote:Huub Aug 10th 6:10 pm
A fix for this problem has just been checked in into the development version. Please drop me a line if you need a patch.


Thanks for the patch. But right now I am getting the following memory related error

Memory Information
            ------------------
          Available GA space size is        3220429150 doubles
          Available MA space size is         805298131 doubles
          Length of a trial vector is        56832   56430
          Algorithm : Incore multiple tensor contraction
          Estimated peak GA usage is        2333263668 doubles
          Estimated peak MA usage is             18000 doubles
3: WARNING:armci_set_mem_offset: offset changed 691299565568 to 691299561472
1: WARNING:armci_set_mem_offset: offset changed 637311901696 to 637311897600
2: WARNING:armci_set_mem_offset: offset changed 315961344000 to 315961339904
id=-1 size=2273312768
******************* ARMCI INFO ************************
The application attempted to allocate a shared memory segment of 2273312768 bytes in size. This might be in addition to segments that were allocated succ
esfully previously. The current system configuration does not allow enough shared memory to be allocated to the application.
This is most often caused by:
1) system parameter SHMMAX (largest shared memory segment) being too small or
2) insufficient swap space.
Please ask your system administrator to verify if SHMMAX matches the amount of memory needed by your application and the system has sufficient amount of 
swap space. Most UNIX systems can be easily reconfigured to allow larger shared memory segments,
see http://www.emsl.pnl.gov/docs/global/support.html
In some cases, the problem might be caused by insufficient swap space.
*******************************************************
0:allocate: failed to create shared region : -1
(rank:0 hostname:Doudou-PC pid:4121):ARMCI DASSERT fail. ../../ga-5-1/armci/src/memory/shmem.c:armci_allocate():1117 cond:0
Last System Error Message from Task 0:: No space left on device


I tried to increase the SHMMAX value using

sudo sysctl -w kernel.shmmax=4294967296


But I still got the same error.

System Specifications: Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit, NWChem 6.1 compiled with OpenMPI 1.6, i7-2600K (4 cores) 16 GB RAM and 16 GB Swap space.

export NWCHEM_TOP=/home/doudou/Programs/nwchem-6.1.1-src
export NWCHEM_TARGET=LINUX64
export USE_MPI=y
export USE_MPIF=y
export USE_MPIF4=y
export MPI_LOC=/usr/local
export MPI_LIB=$MPI_LOC/lib
export LIBMPI="-lmpi_f90 -lmpi_f77 -lmpi -lpthread"
export MPI_INCLUDE=$MPI_LOC/include
export LARGE_FILES=TRUE
export NWCHEM_MODULES=all
cd $NWCHEM_TOP/src
make nwchem_config
make FC=gfortran >& make.log

Clicked A Few Times
Okay I got it to work by
export ARMCI_DEFAULT_SHMMAX=1024
I am not sure what the default value was in the first place. Can somebody please elaborate a little bit more on this. Thanks

Just Got Here
Same error
Dear Huub

I face exactly the same error with version 6.0 and 6.1.1.
Could you send the patch ?

Best regards,

 Thierry

Just Got Here
Same error
Hi Huub,

I also need this patch. Thank you.

Best regards,
Goranka


Forum >> NWChem's corner >> General Topics