I am having convergence problems with the final iterations of a calculation using a large basis set. What can I do?
This problem generally occurs when high precision is necessary because of near linear dependencies in the basis set and there is insufficient precision in the computed gradient or hessian vector product to converge to the requested threshold. The first item to check is to make sure that the convergence threshold is realistic (not below 1e-7 or perhaps 1e-8).