makeparam VASP 5

[Neutrino]

I compiled a series version of VASP 5 and after a succesful compilation, I typed make makeparam and obtained a binary called makeparam. But when I use the makeparam binary to estimate the memory, it runs as VASP serial version (i.e. the electronic relaxation starts ) rather than a makeparam utility. I tried to diff vasp and makeparam and they are different. Is this utility still supported in VASP 5?

[alex]

I think this is a very, very outdated utility from times, where no dynamic memory was accessible (FORTRAN77).

Hth, alex

[Neutrino]

Thank you for your reply , Alex. But makeparam was useful to estimate the memory before submitting the job to the compute nodes. I used to suffer from compute node crashes when I inadvertently submit a job requiring memory more than the RAM of the node (or actually more than 80%) . I wonder if there is then an alternative way to estimate the RAM memory needed for the job before submitting it. This would still be very valuable.