This should not happen. Send the code to petsc-maint at mcs.anl.gov

   Barry

On Sep 6, 2010, at 10:54 AM, Leo van Kampenhout wrote:

> Hello Barry, Matt,
> About this error I am having:
> 
> [2]PETSC ERROR: Nonconforming object sizes!
> [2]PETSC ERROR: Mat mat,Vec y: local dim 700536 697068!
> 
> 
> I am creating my RHS and initial vector from the same DA as the matrix is 
> from (see below). I even tried with setting RHS==1 instead of loading from 
> file, to no avail. I found out the error occurs when #PROC=3,5,7,...,8+ but 
> NOT when #PROC=2,4,8. It might have something to do with differences in 
> partitioning strategies of Mat and Vec? As you know my gridsize has a rather 
> unusual value (number of gridpoints is 2101608). 
> 
> Leo
> 
> 
> 
>       call DACreateGlobalVector(da,x,ierr)
>       call VecDuplicate(x,b,ierr)
> (...)
>       call DAGetMatrix(da,MATMPIAIJ,A,ierr)
> (...)
>       call VecSet(b,one,ierr)
>       call KSPCreate(MPI_COMM_WORLD,ksp,ierr)
>       call KSPSetOperators(ksp,A,A,SAME_NONZERO_PATTERN,ierr)
> (...)
>       call KSPSolve(ksp,b,x,ierr)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 2010/9/3 Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov>
> 
>     You initial vectors must be created with the same DA that is associated 
> with the Matrix for the layout to be automatically correct. Use 
> DACreateGlobalVector() instead of VecCreate(). You may already be doing this 
> and then the problem is more subtle. Let us know.
> 
>    Barry
> 
>     Something may be going wrong with the copy header
> 
> On Sep 3, 2010, at 11:35 AM, Matthew Knepley wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Leo van Kampenhout <lvankampenhout at 
>> gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thanks. Following this conversation closely, i have already built petsc with 
>> --with-debugging=0 and found that then thing work better there. Until there 
>> is a ultimate fix I'm perfectly happy with that. 
>> 
>> Even on my cluster, I can now run the program for 2,4,8 cores. But there is 
>> always a catch... with 10 cores, GMRES breaks down! (see below) Sorry to 
>> bother you with this, it seems unrelated at first sight. Should I issue a 
>> new thread for this?
>> 
>> This is almost certainly somewhere you are not careful about constructing
>> a Vec with the proper layout (as the message says). In fact, from the trace
>> it looks like the rhs Vec passed in is not compatible with the matrix.
>> 
>>   Matt
>>  
>> Regards, Leo
>> 
>> [5]PETSC ERROR: --------------------- Error Message 
>> ------------------------------------
>> [5]PETSC ERROR: Nonconforming object sizes!
>> [5]PETSC ERROR: Mat mat,Vec y: local dim 210161 213282!
>> [5]PETSC ERROR: 
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> [5]PETSC ERROR: Petsc Development HG revision: 
>> 6da7d8c5aaa81099861622f4e6bf1087652253a7  HG Date: Fri Sep 03 15:06:40 2010 
>> +0200
>> [5]PETSC ERROR: See docs/changes/index.html for recent updates.
>> [5]PETSC ERROR: See docs/faq.html for hints about trouble shooting.
>> [5]PETSC ERROR: See docs/index.html for manual pages.
>> [5]PETSC ERROR: 
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> [5]PETSC ERROR: ./main on a linux-opt named node164 by s1459295    Fri Sep  
>> 3 17:44:26 2010
>> [5]PETSC ERROR: Libraries linked from 
>> /home/s1459295/install/petsc-dev/linux-optimized/lib
>> [5]PETSC ERROR: Configure run at Fri Sep  3 15:28:20 2010
>> [5]PETSC ERROR: Configure options --with-debugging=0
>> [5]PETSC ERROR: 
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> [5]PETSC ERROR: MatMult() line 1976 in src/mat/interface/matrix.c
>> [5]PETSC ERROR: KSPInitialResidual() line 55 in src/ksp/ksp/interface/itres.c
>> [5]PETSC ERROR: KSPSolve_GMRES() line 236 in src/ksp/ksp/impls/gmres/gmres.c
>> [5]PETSC ERROR: KSPSolve() line 427 in src/ksp/ksp/interface/itfunc.c
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 2010/9/3 Jed Brown <jed at 59a2.org>
>> 
>> On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 09:15:09 -0600 (GMT-06:00), Shri <abhyshr at mcs.anl.gov> 
>> wrote:
>> > Leo,
>> >     Jed and I both tried running a MatLoad example (see 
>> > src/dm/da/examples/tests/ex35.c) with petsc configured in debug mode and 
>> > had issues running it with your grid size 202 X 102 X 102. This example 
>> > runs in a reasonable amount of time with the optimized petsc build.
>> > I suggest running your code on a smaller grid (100 X100 X 100 seems to 
>> > work fine in the debug mode) for now, get it working and then using the 
>> > optimized petsc build (--debugging=0) for the large grid size.
>> 
>> I wrote an improved sort that doesn't have this bad behavior, but I'm
>> trying to figure out why the old one is okay in optimized mode.  See
>> here:
>> 
>>  http://gist.github.com/563948
>> 
>> The MEDIAN macro chooses the median of the first, last, and middle
>> element in the segment.  Performance looks like
>> 
>>  FAST -O1: 2.0 seconds
>>  FAST -O0: 5 seconds
>>  SLOW -O1: 2.3 seconds
>>  SLOW -O0: more than an hour
>> 
>> SLOW, which is basically the old implementation does a lot of shuffling
>> with the array and ends up hitting a bad case for quicksort (even with
>> the median choice).  What I don't understand, is that apparently
>> building SLOW with -O1 transforms the algorithm into something
>> asymptotically faster.  The assembly is a few hundred lines, and it's
>> not obvious to me what this transform would be.
>> 
>> Jed
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments 
>> is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments 
>> lead.
>> -- Norbert Wiener
> 
> 

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