This is normally not expected but might happen under some combination of
solver options. Please send the output of -ksp_view and the options you use and
we'll try to understand the situation.
Barry
On Nov 7, 2012, at 12:12 PM, Thomas Witkowski <thomas.witkowski at
tu-dresden.de> wrote:
> I have a very curious behavior in one of my codes: Whenever I enable a KSP
> Monitor for an inner solver, the outer iteration count goes down from 25 to
> 18! Okay, this is great :) I like it so see iteration counts decreasing, but
> I would like to know what's going on, and eventually, a KSP monitor should
> not influence the whole game. An to answer your first question, I run the
> code through valgrind and its free of any errors. Any idea what to check
> next? Thanks for any advice.
>
> Thomas
>
