This issue comes up occasionally. Should we consider having a PETSc option that uses setrlimit() to bound the virtual memory size the process can have? Not a perfect solution but at least something, maybe better than nothing?
Barry On Aug 22, 2013, at 8:42 AM, subramanya sadasiva <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I have been trying to use hypre to precondition my Linear Elasticity solver > and I've been running out of memory . The problem is that the code is not > failing gracefully. The server, where I am running the code on just stops > responding and one needs to wait till the code crashes. Can I force the code > to crash gracefully when it runs out of memory? > > Thanks, > Subramanya
