Using ORCA under Windows is painful. However, this does not dim the light of ORCA. Today I met a “not enough memory” error. The following are the details.
Phenomenon: The ORCA 3.0.3 Windows 64-bit version was used under Windows 8.1. The calculation was run in single-process mode (I can’t make the parallel version work 😢). Since the auxiliary basis set def2-QZVPP/C was used, MP2 should be calculated. But a error occurred:
When I switched to the master branch of Emacs, I found that octave-mode doesn’t work correctly. The run-octave will result in the crash of “octave-gui.exe”, even without the configuration file. Afer hours of digging, I think the problem is related to the default-directory. That is, no matter what the PATH is, only when the default-directory being the directory of octave program can make it work. This may relate to the octave, but in Emacs 24.5 run-octave works correctly. Strang enough. I can workaround the problem by temporarily setting the default-directory. The code looks like: