Dump files cannot exceed 2.1GB

Submitted by JoshuaP on Wed, 06/17/2015 - 11:32

Hi,

I try to dump out the particles information with

dump id all custom 2000 post/dump.fill id type x y z ....

but it stops writing out dump files over 2.1 GB. The dump files of the meshes are still created but not the particle ones.
what could be the problem?

thanks in advance
Joshua

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richti83 | Thu, 06/18/2015 - 08:24

sounds like end of 2³² bit problem. Avoid writing to one big dumpfile by inserting an asterisk in filename eg post/dump*.fill.
The fileseries can be read directly in ParaView using ParaView Reader for LIGGGHTS:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/richti83/ParaView_Reader_for_LIGGGHTS/... (this file is for 64bit systems)

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Daniel Queteschiner | Fri, 06/19/2015 - 12:36

Additionally, by using .bin or .gz as file extension you may be able to reduce the dump file size (see documentation of dump command in the LIGGGHTS manual).

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ckloss | Wed, 07/01/2015 - 14:28

Joshua,

as pointed out above -you can write one file per time-step

Christoph