On Wed, 30 May 2012, Roy Stogner wrote:

> While trying to track down a bug in my next ParallelMesh patch, I ran
> into an apparent bug in our Parmetis support that dates back for I
> don't know how far.
>
> We already serialize and fall back on Metis when we have more elements
> than processors, and according to our code comments N_e<N_p is simply
> an unsupported configuration for Parmetis... but I'm seeing crashes
> (segfaults and/or double-frees) in quite a few other cases.  Running
> adaptivity_ex1 with 1 through 20 elements on 1 through 15 processors
> gives failures whenever num_proc: num_elem is in
>
> 3:3
> 4:4
> 5:5,6,7,8
> 6:6,7,8
> 7:7,8,9
> 8:8,9,10,11
> 9:9,10,11,12
...

Sadly, we seem to be getting the very same failure pattern with the
current ParMETIS.
---
Roy

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