[MITgcm-devel] Re: [MITgcm-cvs] MITgcm/verification/fizhi-cs-32x32x10/input CVS Commit

[Ed Hill]

On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 16:04 -0400, Andrea Molod wrote:
> Update of /u/gcmpack/MITgcm/verification/fizhi-cs-32x32x10/input
> In directory forge:/tmp/cvs-serv8436
> 
> Modified Files:
> 	eedata 
> Log Message:
> comment out SET_RLSTK which may be creating problems on itrda

Hi Andrea,

Technically, "useSETRLSTK=.TRUE." isn't a root cause.  All that
useSETRLSTK does is un-limit the stack size.  Its identical to:

  [ba]sh:  ulimit -s unlimited
  [t]csh:  limit stacksize unlimited

It was the stack size limit that killed fizhi w/ g77 on those machines
(and, earlier, with the Intel compilers on Columbia).  The useSETRLSTK
flag now allows the run to proceed a bit further along.  In this case,
it encounters a different problem that results in the test taking longer
to execute than the wall time allowed by our queue.  So, the entire set
of tests times out and we get no results.

Jean-Michel and I talked about this a little bit and I wanted to send an
email that documented what happened.

Ed

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