On Mar 13, 2014, at 8:19 PM, Jed Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> Barry Smith <[email protected]> writes:
>> You may need to ask the system administrator of the machine to give
>> you a directory on the machine that has lots of free space to use to
>> work with PETSc.
>
> The system search paths are often over NFS as well, and account for the
> vast majority of file access during configure/builds. This prevents
> fixing the performance problem simply by building in scratch.
Yes but scratch can still help a great deal.
BTW: how much information is/could be cached either in the fileserver memory
or local memory and can get reused?
Barry
