On 5 May 2017, at 18:43, Khamesra, Bhavesh <bhaveshkhame...@gatech.edu> wrote:

> I have heard of such a segfault before. I assume it is caused by using too 
> many processes or too many threads for a particular resolution. I have not 
> yet reproduced it, and I don't know what causes it. It would be helpful if 
> you could produce a stack backtrace or similar. On the other hand, if this 
> segfault only appears for very inefficient configurations, then there is no 
> urgent need to debug this, as people won't be interested in using such 
> configurations anyway.
> I do not think that it is caused by using too many processors. I tried it 
> with varying number of cores from 68 (insufficient) to 204 but get the same 
> error. Also, I am getting this error with all my BBH parameter files I have 
> tried, so its kind of important. Is there a way to produce backtrace file 
> using simfactory? 

Carpet should write a backtrace file into the output directory if there is a 
segfault.  Do you see backtrace files in

sim/output-0000/sim/backtrace.*.txt

?

-- 
Ian Hinder
http://members.aei.mpg.de/ianhin

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