[Aces-support] MAXFILES

[Patrick Heimbach]

Hi Ian,

you should be on the MITgcm support list.
Matt just inquired about this a week ago.
See following thread:

http://forge.csail.mit.edu/pipermail/mitgcm-support/2008-September/ 
005688.html

-p.

On Sep 17, 2008, at 1:41 PM, Ian G. Fenty wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> When I try to compile the mitgcm on one of the nodes from AO, I get  
> the error :
> makedepend: error:  out of space: increase MAXFILES
>
> after I invoke 'make depend'.
>
> A ulimit -a gives:
>
> core file size        (blocks, -c) unlimited
> data seg size         (kbytes, -d) unlimited
> file size             (blocks, -f) unlimited
> max locked memory     (kbytes, -l) 32
> max memory size       (kbytes, -m) unlimited
> open files                    (-n) 1024
> pipe size          (512 bytes, -p) 8
> stack size            (kbytes, -s) unlimited
> cpu time             (seconds, -t) unlimited
> max user processes            (-u) 32765
> virtual memory        (kbytes, -v) unlimited
>
> And trying to up the open files limit via "ulimit -n 2048" gives
>
> -bash: ulimit: open files: cannot modify limit: Operation not  
> permitted
>
> I have these modules loaded:
>
> 1) man                             8) ncview/1.92e(default)
>  2) modules                         9) icc/8.1.038(default)
>  3) rsh                            10) ifc/8.1.018(default)
>  4) torque-additions/1.0(default)  11) mpich2/1.0.3/intel
>  5) maui/3.2.6p19                  12) intel/8.1(default)
>  6) torque/1.2.0p4(default)        13) netcdf/3.6.1/icc
>  7) matlab/7r14(default)
>
>
> Any ideas?
> Thanks,
> Ian
>
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