I forgot to mention: Some of the memory allocated in the code is from non-petsc structures. Not sure if that is important.
Another question: The number reported by -memory_info, is it in bytes? thanks matt On Thursday 17 September 2009, you wrote: > Hi, > > I am wondering whether the -memory_info option and the > PetscMemoryGetMaximumUsage() call report different things. > > The reason i am asking is because i call the PetscMemoryGetCurrentUsage fcn > in my code and it shows: > 5.25558e+08. > > At the end of the run the -memory_info option reports: > max process malloc()'ed: 4.00524e+08 > max petsc malloc()'ed: 1.15254e+08. > > So i am a little confused by those numbers unless the fcn call is the more > complete picture (as said on the manual page) > > I guess then my question is whether the -memory_info corresponds to the > PetscMalloc* fcns? > > thanks > matt -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-users/attachments/20090917/375be5a2/attachment.htm>
