Dear Askari I think it is because of your system limitation for RAM or swap space. Because in 3D simulations it needs so more space for grid generation and run.
Mehdi Kamali Message: 2 Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:31:31 +0430 From: Mehdi Askari <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: [Meep-discuss] std::bad_alloc Error Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Dear meep users I have a ctl file for a 3-dimensional simulation. ?When I run the simulation, one of the two following errors appear: 1) " meep: cannot split -1399431680 (or another number) grid points into one " 2) " terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc' what() : std::bad_alloc " I will appreciate if any one tells me what they mean. Thank you very much in advance Mehdi Askari
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