Please send me the full output. This is nuts and should be reported once we understand it better to NERSc as something to be fixed. When I pay $60 million in taxes to a computing center I expect something that works fine for free on my laptop to work also there.
Barry > On Nov 10, 2015, at 7:51 AM, Mark Adams <[email protected]> wrote: > > I ran an 8 processor job on Edison of a small code for a short run (just a > linear solve) and got 37 Mb of output! > > Here is a 'Petsc' grep. > > Perhaps we should build an ignore file for things that we believe is a false > positive. > > On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 11:55 AM, Barry Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am more optimistic about valgrind than Mark. I first try valgrind and if > that fails to be helpful then use the debugger. valgrind has the advantage > that it finds the FIRST place that something is wrong, while in the debugger > it is kind of late at the crash. > > Valgrind should not be noisy, if it is then the applications/libraries > should be cleaned up so that they are valgrind clean and then valgrind is > useful. > > Barry > > > > > On Nov 3, 2015, at 7:47 AM, Mark Adams <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > BTW, I think that our advice for segv is use a debugger. DDT or Totalview, > > and gdb if need be, will get you right to the source code and will get 90% > > of bugs diagnosed. Valgrind is noisy and cumbersome to use but can > > diagnose 90% of the other 10%. > > > > On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 7:32 AM, Denis Davydov <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Jose, > > > > > On 3 Nov 2015, at 12:20, Jose E. Roman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > I am answering the SLEPc-related questions: > > > - Having different number of iterations when changing the number of > > > processes is normal. > > the change in iterations i mentioned are for different preconditioners, but > > the same number of MPI processes. > > > > > > > - Yes, if you do not destroy the EPS solver, then the preconditioner > > > would be reused. > > > > > > Regarding the segmentation fault, I have no clue. Not sure if this is > > > related to GAMG or not. Maybe running under valgrind could provide more > > > information. > > will try that. > > > > Denis. > > > > > <petsc_val.gz>
