[gmx-users] mdrun WARING and crash

[Justin Lemkul]

On 2/26/13 11:57 AM, L.Liu at utwente.nl wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I got WARNING after mdrun, which says:
>
> "WARNING: Listed nonbonded interaction between particles 794 and 797
> at distance 3f which is larger than the table limit 3f nm.
>
> This is likely either a 1,4 interaction, or a listed interaction inside
> a smaller molecule you are decoupling during a free energy calculation.
> Since interactions at distances beyond the table cannot be computed,
> they are skipped until they are inside the table limit again. You will
> only see this message once, even if it occurs for several interactions.
>
> IMPORTANT: This should not happen in a stable simulation, so there is
> probably something wrong with your system. Only change the table-extension
> distance in the mdp file if you are really sure that is the reason."
>
> I don't quite understand the 'table limit 3f', what does it mean?

That's a simple output typo, though it's somewhat important.  The format is for 
a floating-point number, printed with 3 decimal places (%.3f).  For some reason 
that's not coming through correctly, though it did in previous versions.

> In our system, the bonded interactions is FENE, and the non-bonded LJ interactions are between every coarse-grained beads by setting nrexcl=0 in topology file.
>

There's some physical instability in the model that is causing the system to 
blow up.

http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/Terminology/Blowing_Up

-Justin

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