[gmx-users] Killing mdrun based on execution time
David van der Spoel
spoel at xray.bmc.uu.se
Wed May 28 08:30:26 CEST 2008
Mark Abraham wrote:
> Samuel Coulbourn Flores 花山 wrote:
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> Is it possible to have mdrun die if it's still running after a
>> specified amount of processor time?
>
> Not within GROMACS.
It will be in release 4.
>
>> I have an automatically initiated job that sometimes hangs.
>> Alternatively, is there a way to have it give up upon encountering a
>> LINCS warning? It seems to hang after getting one of these:
>>
>> Step 1639, time 3.278 (ps) LINCS WARNING
>> relative constraint deviation after LINCS:
>> max 411690860544.000000 (between atoms 2093 and 2097) rms
>> 22468395008.000000
>> bonds that rotated more than 30 degrees:
>> atom 1 atom 2 angle previous, current, co
>
> That means you haven't prepared your system well enough, equilibrated
> well enough, or similar. You should work on fixing the cause, not the
> symptoms. See
> http://wiki.gromacs.org/index.php/Errors#LINCS.2FSETTLE.2FSHAKE_warnings
Agreed.
>
> Mark
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