Error occurs in module snsdrv

Kaushik Iyer
Kaushik Iyer Altair Community Member
edited June 2021 in Community Q&A

Hej, I am trying to run a composite sizing optimization on my Student license hypermesh but the optimization keeps getting terminated after one iteration showing a Fatal Error: "OptiStruct ERROR: 2. A fatal error has occurred in your model. Please refer to the .out file to obtain more information on how to correct it." When i looked at the .out file, the only indication of any error was " This error occurs in module "snsdrv"." Does anyone know why this error keeps popping up and is it a modeling issue or a computer memory or a student license issue.

Answers

  • Adriano_Koga
    Adriano_Koga
    Altair Employee
    edited June 2021

    can't tell what this error means, but maybe attaching the .out and .stat files might be helpful.

  • Kaushik Iyer
    Kaushik Iyer Altair Community Member
    edited June 2021

    Hi, i have attached the out and stat files

     

  • Adriano_Koga
    Adriano_Koga
    Altair Employee
    edited June 2021

    Hi, i have attached the out and stat files

     

    It looks like a memory issue. Can't tell for sure.

    How much of RAM do you have?

    Can you try again with everything else closed to free some RAM?

    Another thing: B: drive is a local drive? or is it a network drive? If it is network, please avoid using it.

     

     This error occurs in module "snsdrv".
     
     *** WARNING: The amount of allocated memory exceeds available RAM - this
    may cause significant slowing down of solution progress due to the swapping
    out memory to the swap file. It is recommended to use out-of-core
    solution to reduce memory requirements.
     
     
     NOTE # 1405
     Memory is being expanded from 800 MB to 881 MB.
     Estimated working storage was not enough for inserting the data block
     "nhmele1d" (1 MB + 1 MB)
     In order that we may improve our memory estimates, it would be appreciated
      if you could email this information and your run command to Local Altair
      support in your region. If it is possible, please also include input data.