Error saving lightcone file

From: Robin Booth <robin.booth_at_sussex.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2021 09:49:26 +0000

Hi Volker

I am currently running a simulation which specifies a quadrant lightcone output commencing at redshift z = 1.4.
The simulation runs fine from z = 50 up to the point where lightcone output is required then crashes with this error on each core:

BFD: Dwarf Error: found dwarf version '5', this reader only handles version 2, 3 and 4 information.

with this traceback:

==== backtrace (tid: 241654) ====
 0 0x0000000000059065 ucs_debug_print_backtrace() /cosma/local/software/ucx/ucx-1.10.1/src/ucs/debug/debug.c:656
 1 0x0000000000440518 IO_Def::fill_write_buffer() ???:0
 2 0x00000000004478f9 IO_Def::write_file() ???:0
 3 0x00000000004487be IO_Def::write_multiple_files() ???:0
 4 0x00000000004f9023 lightcone_particle_io::lightcone_save() ???:0
 5 0x000000000041a066 sim::create_snapshot_if_desired() ???:0
 6 0x000000000041ca55 sim::run() ???:0
 7 0x000000000040cd38 main() ???:0
 8 0x0000000000022555 __libc_start_main() ???:0
 9 0x000000000040dd6f _start() ???:0
=================================

The first lightcone folder and files are created successfully (lightcone_00). but do not contain partcile data as far as I can see. The second set of files (lightcone_01) are created and contain particle data (I assume, as they are > 8 x 32 Gbytes in size). However, they are corrupted in that h5dump is unable to parse them, so I presume that the crash occurs whilst writing to these files.

One further piece of information that may or may not be relevant: the code was inadvertently compiled with the SUBFIND_STORE_LOCALDENSITY flag set, so that output snapshots (and presumably the lightcone snapshots) contain the additional datasets associated with this setting.

Any suggestions?

Regards

Robin
Received on 2021-08-06 11:49:59