On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 3:27 PM, John Peterson <jwpeter...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>
>
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Kirk, Benjamin (JSC-EG311) <
> benjamin.k...@nasa.gov> wrote:
>
>> Yeah, before I get too carried away I should probably just try running
>> the existing code path twice: Once as-is, and again actually commenting
>> out the underlying Metis call, making the partitioner a big, expensive
>> no-op.
>>
>> Actually, John, if you have a chance could you rerun one of the cases you
>> have data for, but just comment out the call to metis? Hopefully the
>> memory usage will drop, verifying metis is the issue.
>>
>> It should suffice to comment out the metis call, and add a
>>
>> std::fill (part.begin(), part.end(), 0);
>>
>> instead, provided its this simple stand-alone case where the mesh is not
>> used!
>>
>
> Yep, I can certainly do that, but I think this is already verified just by
> looking at the difference in memory usage between Centroid/Linear/SFC
> Paritioner and Metis I posted in one of the prior emails this week.
>
Here's a link to a plot of total memory usage (across 2 procs) for the
200^3 case, annoated at different points in the simulation:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9BK7pg8se_iWmloaHNhOTJSNUE/edit?usp=sharing
The plot didn't quite include all the annotations I was expecting, but I do
have some more precise numbers:
1. before/after building global_index_map: 6653660 - 5615440 K = 0.99 Gb
total, half a gig/core
2. begin/end call to Metis: 7628896 - 7460828 = .16 Gb, we actually have
slightly _more_ memory free when Metis finishes (plus/minus sampling error)
so I don't think there are any major leaks in Metis
3. The ramp between the "global_index_map end" and "graph alloc" is the
time when the graph is filled up and when the entries in vwgt, which was
allocated earlier, are finally being touched. Could be the OS is finally
assigning vwgt actual memory during this time? I would have thought we
would recover more memory when the graph is deallocated, which happens just
before the call to PartGraphRecursive (you can see a slight dip there)...
I'll have to try and instrument it a bit more carefully tomorrow.
--
John
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