On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 3:59 PM, subramanya sadasiva <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi, I have been running into trouble with 3D simulations owing to
> excessive memory usage in build_sparsity(). The code becomes unusable for
> any systems larger than 250,000 hex20 elements on a machine with 16GB of
> RAM. I have a feeling that this is a bit excessive. Is this what is
> expected? Is there a way to reduce the memory usage while building the
> sparsity?


Have many variables do you have?

What type of finite elements are you using?

Are you running in serial or parallel?

-- 
John
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