On Apr 28, 2014, at 3:23 PM, Xiangdong <epsco...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > When I run snes program,
^^^^ what SNES program”? > it outputs "SNES Function norm 1.23456789e+10". It seems that this norm is > different from residue norm (even if solving F(x)=0) Please send the full output where you see this. > and also differ from norm of the Jacobian. What is the definition of this > "SNES Function Norm”? The SNES Function Norm as printed by PETSc is suppose to the 2-norm of F(x) - b (where b is usually zero) and this is also the same thing as the “residue norm” Barry > > Thank you. > > Best, > Xiangdong