Dear user
Please sign always your posts to the forum with name and scientific
affiliation.
Yes, you are wasting your time and your calculation is likely never
going to converge. Impossible to say more without seeing more details
of your input file.
HTH
Giuseppe
Quoting Jon G
I have a rather large unit cell(160 atoms that take up the entirety of the
space - symmetry doesn't let me shrink the cell as far as I know)...
My question is: Should scf accuracy be going down with each iteration? I
don't have much experience on large systems and I'm wondering if I'm
wasting my