On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Avery Bingham <avery.bingham at 
gmail.com>wrote:

> I have also seen this behavior, and I think this might be related to the 
> scaling of the variables in the nonlinear system.  I am using PETSc through 
> an application of MOOSE which allows for scaling of the variables.  This 
> scaling reduces the chance that the default cubic backtracking line search 
> fails, but it is not reliable on all problems. Would it be possible to get a 
> scaling-independent Line Search Method implemented within PETSc?
>
>
I'm not sure what you mean by scaling, but there is -snes_linesearch_type
cp (critical point) that might be useful.
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