Hello Phil and thanks for your email..I was running  a VMware fusion Ubuntu
session which was grabbing onto a large chunk of memory ( entirely my
fault). I didnt realize that virtualized sessions can divert memory away
from even the OS and make it essentially unavailable.

I am waiting for my ubuntu job to finish to retry the phaser run. Sorry I
jumped the gun and emailed ccp4bb

Thanks again
hari

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Phil Jeffrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

> I would take a look at how much physical memory is on the machine, how much
> disk space there is on the system drive (often used as virtual swap), and
> what other processes are running.  This would seem to be a failure to
> allocate 2Gb of memory, which isn't the smallest chunk I've ever seen.
>
> Phil
>
>
> hari jayaram wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> I am running phaser from the ccp4 6.0.99 suite on an OSX 10.5.4 Leopard ,
>> Mac Pro machine .
>> I get the rather ominous error given below .
>> We have gotten similar malloc errors with large datasets before on this
>> machine. In those cases the same jobs ran fine on regular linux.
>> Thought I would write in. I can send the mtz and search model over if
>> needed for testing/ reproducing this error
>>
>> Thanks a lot for your help
>> Hari Jayaram
>> Postdoc , Brandeis Univerity
>>
>>
>> --------------------
>> EXIT STATUS: SUCCESS
>> --------------------
>>
>> CPU Time: 0 days 0 hrs 9 mins 0.67 secs (540.67 secs)
>> Finished: Thu Aug 21 13:45:26 2008
>>
>> </pre>
>> </html>
>>
>> ***************************************************************************
>> * Information from CCP4Interface script
>>
>> ***************************************************************************
>> The program run with command: /sw/share/xtal/ccp4-6.0.99e/bin/phaser
>> has failed with error message
>> phaser(36682) malloc: *** mmap(size=1999872000) failed (error code=12)
>> *** error: can't allocate region
>> *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
>>
>> ***************************************************************************
>>
>>
>> #CCP4I TERMINATION STATUS 0 "phaser(36682) malloc: ***
>> mmap(size=1999872000) failed (error code=12) *** error: can't allocate
>> region *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug"
>> #CCP4I TERMINATION TIME 21 Aug 2008  13:45:26
>> #CCP4I MESSAGE Task failed
>>
>
>

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