Hello, My suite ‘u-cm987’ is suffering from an oom-kill error in the fcm_make2_um task. I checked Monsoon to Archer2 Suite and followed advice there to increase available memory to 25Gb, but that didn’t fix this problem. I also checked ARCHER2 Known Issues - ARCHER2 User Documentation and the top…

Hi Leighton, The fcm_make2_um failed in its latest attempt with a lock file error: [FAIL] /work/n02/n02/lre/cylc-run/u-cm987/share/fcm_make_um/fcm-make2.lock: lock exists at the destination Remove that lock directory on ARCHER2 and try again. Increasing the memory as you have done should fix the…

Hi Ros, This suite had been running properly after your advice here. But, I ran for longer yesterday , with minor changes to a task (flight_track_sim) and that task now crashed with the oom-kill error. I can’t see any locked directories this time. Does it make sense to increase the memory allocat…

Hi Leighton worth a try Grenville

Oom-kill error

Rose/Cylc and FCM

Leighton_Regayre 7 April 2022 09:25 3

Hi Ros,

I’ll do that and hopefully remember for next time - thanks!

Leighton

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