Thanks. I made a new function based on the PetscGetCurrentUsage which does what I want. It seems like I am being lucky as the numbers returned by the OS seem to be reasonable.
thanks again, Vincent ________________________________________ Von: Jed Brown [[email protected]] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 14. Mai 2014 00:59 An: Barry Smith; De Groof, Vincent Frans Maria Cc: [email protected] Betreff: Re: [petsc-users] Memory usage during matrix factorization Barry Smith <[email protected]> writes: > Here is the code: it is only as reliable as the OS is at reporting the > values. HPC vendors have a habit of implementing these functions to return nonsense. Sometimes they provide non-standard functions to return useful information.
