Can you please try v3.12.3  There was some funky business mistakenly added 
related to partitioning that has been fixed in 3.12.3

   Barry


> On Jan 10, 2020, at 1:57 PM, Santiago Andres Triana <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> I ran the program with valgrind --tool=massif, the results are cryptic to me 
> ... not sure who's the memory hog! the logs are attached.
> 
> The command I used is:
> mpiexec -n 24 valgrind --tool=massif --num-callers=20 
> --log-file=valgrind.log.%p ./ex7 -f1 A.petsc -f2 B.petsc -eps_nev 1 $opts 
> -eps_target -4.008e-3+1.57142i -eps_target_magnitude -eps_tol 1e-14
> 
> Is there any possibility to install a version of superlu_dist (or mumps) 
> different from what the petsc version automatically downloads?
> 
> Thanks!
> Santiago
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 10:04 PM Dave May <[email protected]> wrote:
> This kind of issue is difficult to untangle because you have potentially 
> three pieces of software which might have changed between v3.9 and v3.12, 
> namely
> PETSc, SLEPC and SuperLU_dist. 
> You need to isolate which software component is responsible for the 2x 
> increase in memory.
> 
> When I look at the memory usage in the log files, things look very very 
> similar for the raw PETSc objects.
> 
> [v3.9]
> --- Event Stage 0: Main Stage
> 
>               Viewer     4              3         2520     0.
>               Matrix    15             15    125236536     0.
>               Vector    22             22     19713856     0.
>            Index Set    10             10       995280     0.
>          Vec Scatter     4              4         4928     0.
>           EPS Solver     1              1         2276     0.
>   Spectral Transform     1              1          848     0.
>        Basis Vectors     1              1         2168     0.
>          PetscRandom     1              1          662     0.
>               Region     1              1          672     0.
>        Direct Solver     1              1        17440     0.
>        Krylov Solver     1              1         1176     0.
>       Preconditioner     1              1         1000     0.
> 
> versus 
> 
> [v3.12]
> --- Event Stage 0: Main Stage
> 
>               Viewer     4              3         2520     0.
>               Matrix    15             15    125237144     0.
>               Vector    22             22     19714528     0.
>            Index Set    10             10       995096     0.
>          Vec Scatter     4              4         3168     0.
>    Star Forest Graph     4              4         3936     0.
>           EPS Solver     1              1         2292     0.
>   Spectral Transform     1              1          848     0.
>        Basis Vectors     1              1         2184     0.
>          PetscRandom     1              1          662     0.
>               Region     1              1          672     0.
>        Direct Solver     1              1        17456     0.
>        Krylov Solver     1              1         1400     0.
>       Preconditioner     1              1         1000     0.
> 
> Certainly there is no apparent factor 2x increase in memory usage in the 
> underlying petsc objects themselves.
> Furthermore, the counts of creations of petsc objects in toobig.log and 
> justfine.log match, indicating that none of the implementations used in 
> either PETSc or SLEPc have fundamentally changed wrt the usage of the native 
> petsc objects.
> 
> It is also curious that VecNorm is called 3 times in "justfine.log" and 19 
> times in "toobig.log" - although I don't see how that could be related to you 
> problem...
> 
> The above at least gives me the impression that issue of memory increase is 
> likely not coming from PETSc.
> I just read Barry's useful email which is even more compelling and also 
> indicates SLEPc is not the likely culprit either as it uses PetscMalloc() 
> internally.
> 
> Some options to identify the problem:
> 
> 1/ Eliminate SLEPc as a possible culprit by not calling EPSSolve() and rather 
> just call KSPSolve() with some RHS vector.
> * If you still see a 2x increase, switch the preconditioner to using -pc_type 
> bjacobi -ksp_max_it 10 rather than superlu_dist.
> If the memory usage is good, you can be pretty certain the issue arises 
> internally to superl_dist.
> 
> 2/ Leave your code as is and perform your profiling using mumps rather than 
> superlu_dist. 
> This is a less reliable test than 1/ since the mumps implementation used with 
> v3.9 and v3.12 may differ...
> 
> Thanks
> Dave
> 
> On Thu, 9 Jan 2020 at 20:17, Santiago Andres Triana <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I think parmetis is not involved since I still run out of memory if I use the 
> following options:
> export opts='-st_type sinvert -st_ksp_type preonly -st_pc_type lu 
> -st_pc_factor_mat_solver_type superlu_dist -eps_true_residual 1'
> and  issuing:
> mpiexec -n 24 ./ex7 -f1 A.petsc -f2 B.petsc -eps_nev 1 -eps_target 
> -4.008e-3+1.57142i $opts -eps_target_magnitude -eps_tol 1e-14 -memory_view
> 
> Bottom line is that the memory usage of petsc-3.9.4 / slepc-3.9.2 is much 
> lower than current version. I can only solve relatively small problems using 
> the 3.12 series :(
> I have an example with smaller matrices that will likely fail in a 32 Gb ram 
> machine with petsc-3.12 but runs just fine with petsc-3.9. The -memory_view 
> output is
> 
> with petsc-3.9.4: (log 'justfine.log' attached)
> 
> Summary of Memory Usage in PETSc
> Maximum (over computational time) process memory:        total 1.6665e+10 max 
> 7.5674e+08 min 6.4215e+08
> Current process memory:                                  total 1.5841e+10 max 
> 7.2881e+08 min 6.0905e+08
> Maximum (over computational time) space PetscMalloc()ed: total 3.1290e+09 max 
> 1.5868e+08 min 1.0179e+08
> Current space PetscMalloc()ed:                           total 1.8808e+06 max 
> 7.8368e+04 min 7.8368e+04
> 
> 
> with petsc-3.12.2: (log 'toobig.log' attached)
> 
> Summary of Memory Usage in PETSc
> Maximum (over computational time) process memory:        total 3.1564e+10 max 
> 1.3662e+09 min 1.2604e+09
> Current process memory:                                  total 3.0355e+10 max 
> 1.3082e+09 min 1.2254e+09
> Maximum (over computational time) space PetscMalloc()ed: total 2.7618e+09 max 
> 1.4339e+08 min 8.6493e+07
> Current space PetscMalloc()ed:                           total 3.6127e+06 max 
> 1.5053e+05 min 1.5053e+05
> 
> Strangely, monitoring with 'top' I can see *appreciably higher* peak memory 
> use, usually twice what -memory_view ends up reporting, both for petsc-3.9.4 
> and current. Program fails usually at this peak if not enough ram available
> 
> The matrices for the example quoted above can be downloaded here (I use 
> slepc's tutorial ex7.c to solve the problem):
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/as9bec9iurjra6r/A.petsc?dl=0  (about 600 Mb)
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/u2bbmng23rp8l91/B.petsc?dl=0  (about 210 Mb)
> 
> I haven't been able to use a debugger successfully since I am using a compute 
> node without the possibility of an xterm ... note that I have no experience 
> using a debugger so any help on that will also be appreciated!
> Hope I can switch to the current petsc/slepc version for my production runs 
> soon...
> 
> Thanks again!
> Santiago
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 4:25 PM Stefano Zampini <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> Can you reproduce the issue with smaller matrices? Or with a debug build 
> (i.e. using —with-debugging=1 and compilation flags -02 -g)? 
> 
> The only changes in parmetis between the two PETSc releases are these below, 
> but I don’t see how they could cause issues
> 
> kl-18448:pkg-parmetis szampini$ git log -2
> commit ab4fedc6db1f2e3b506be136e3710fcf89ce16ea (HEAD -> master, tag: 
> v4.0.3-p5, origin/master, origin/dalcinl/random, origin/HEAD)
> Author: Lisandro Dalcin <[email protected]>
> Date:   Thu May 9 18:44:10 2019 +0300
> 
>     GKLib: Make FPRFX##randInRange() portable for 32bit/64bit indices
> 
> commit 2b4afc79a79ef063f369c43da2617fdb64746dd7
> Author: Lisandro Dalcin <[email protected]>
> Date:   Sat May 4 17:22:19 2019 +0300
> 
>     GKlib: Use gk_randint32() to define the RandomInRange() macro
> 
> 
> 
>> On Jan 9, 2020, at 4:31 AM, Smith, Barry F. via petsc-users 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>  This is extremely worrisome:
>> 
>> ==23361== Use of uninitialised value of size 8
>> ==23361==    at 0x847E939: gk_randint64 (random.c:99)
>> ==23361==    by 0x847EF88: gk_randint32 (random.c:128)
>> ==23361==    by 0x81EBF0B: libparmetis__Match_Global (in 
>> /space/hpc-home/trianas/petsc-3.12.3/arch-linux2-c-debug/lib/libparmetis.so)
>> 
>> do you get that with PETSc-3.9.4 or only with 3.12.3?  
>> 
>>   This may result in Parmetis using non-random numbers and then giving back 
>> an inappropriate ordering that requires more memory for SuperLU_DIST.
>> 
>>  Suggest looking at the code, or running in the debugger to see what is 
>> going on there. We use parmetis all the time and don't see this.
>> 
>>  Barry
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Jan 8, 2020, at 4:34 PM, Santiago Andres Triana <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Dear Matt, petsc-users:
>>> 
>>> Finally back after the holidays to try to solve this issue, thanks for your 
>>> patience!
>>> I compiled the latest petsc (3.12.3) with debugging enabled, the same 
>>> problem appears: relatively large matrices result in out of memory errors. 
>>> This is not the case for petsc-3.9.4, all fine there.
>>> This is a non-hermitian, generalized eigenvalue problem, I generate the A 
>>> and B matrices myself and then I use example 7 (from the slepc tutorial at 
>>> $SLEPC_DIR/src/eps/examples/tutorials/ex7.c ) to solve the problem:
>>> 
>>> mpiexec -n 24 valgrind --tool=memcheck -q --num-callers=20 
>>> --log-file=valgrind.log.%p ./ex7 -malloc off -f1 A.petsc -f2 B.petsc 
>>> -eps_nev 1 -eps_target -2.5e-4+1.56524i -eps_target_magnitude -eps_tol 
>>> 1e-14 $opts
>>> 
>>> where the $opts variable is:
>>> export opts='-st_type sinvert -st_ksp_type preonly -st_pc_type lu 
>>> -eps_error_relative ::ascii_info_detail -st_pc_factor_mat_solver_type 
>>> superlu_dist -mat_superlu_dist_iterrefine 1 -mat_superlu_dist_colperm 
>>> PARMETIS -mat_superlu_dist_parsymbfact 1 -eps_converged_reason 
>>> -eps_conv_rel -eps_monitor_conv -eps_true_residual 1'
>>> 
>>> the output from valgrind (sample from one processor) and from the program 
>>> are attached.
>>> If it's of any use the matrices are here (might need at least 180 Gb of ram 
>>> to solve the problem succesfully under petsc-3.9.4):
>>> 
>>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/as9bec9iurjra6r/A.petsc?dl=0
>>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/u2bbmng23rp8l91/B.petsc?dl=0
>>> 
>>> WIth petsc-3.9.4 and slepc-3.9.2 I can use matrices up to 10Gb (with 240 Gb 
>>> ram), but only up to 3Gb with the latest petsc/slepc.
>>> Any suggestions, comments or any other help are very much appreciated!
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Santiago
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 11:19 PM Matthew Knepley <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 3:14 PM Santiago Andres Triana <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>> Dear all,
>>> 
>>> After upgrading to petsc 3.12.2 my solver program crashes consistently. 
>>> Before the upgrade I was using petsc 3.9.4 with no problems.
>>> 
>>> My application deals with a complex-valued, generalized eigenvalue problem. 
>>> The matrices involved are relatively large, typically 2 to 10 Gb in size, 
>>> which is no problem for petsc 3.9.4.
>>> 
>>> Are you sure that your indices do not exceed 4B? If so, you need to 
>>> configure using
>>> 
>>>  --with-64-bit-indices
>>> 
>>> Also, it would be nice if you ran with the debugger so we can get a stack 
>>> trace for the SEGV.
>>> 
>>>  Thanks,
>>> 
>>>    Matt
>>> 
>>> However, after the upgrade I can only obtain solutions when the matrices 
>>> are small, the solver crashes when the matrices' size exceed about 1.5 Gb:
>>> 
>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: 
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: Caught signal number 15 Terminate: Some process (or the 
>>> batch system) has told this process to end
>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: Try option -start_in_debugger or -on_error_attach_debugger
>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: or see 
>>> https://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/documentation/faq.html#valgrind
>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: or try http://valgrind.org on GNU/linux and Apple Mac OS X 
>>> to find memory corruption errors
>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: configure using --with-debugging=yes, recompile, link, and 
>>> run 
>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: to get more information on the crash.
>>> 
>>> and so on for each cpu.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I tried using valgrind and this is the typical output:
>>> 
>>> ==2874== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)
>>> ==2874==    at 0x4018178: index (in /lib64/ld-2.22.so)
>>> ==2874==    by 0x400752D: expand_dynamic_string_token (in /lib64/ld-2.22.so)
>>> ==2874==    by 0x4008009: _dl_map_object (in /lib64/ld-2.22.so)
>>> ==2874==    by 0x40013E4: map_doit (in /lib64/ld-2.22.so)
>>> ==2874==    by 0x400EA53: _dl_catch_error (in /lib64/ld-2.22.so)
>>> ==2874==    by 0x4000ABE: do_preload (in /lib64/ld-2.22.so)
>>> ==2874==    by 0x4000EC0: handle_ld_preload (in /lib64/ld-2.22.so)
>>> ==2874==    by 0x40034F0: dl_main (in /lib64/ld-2.22.so)
>>> ==2874==    by 0x4016274: _dl_sysdep_start (in /lib64/ld-2.22.so)
>>> ==2874==    by 0x4004A99: _dl_start (in /lib64/ld-2.22.so)
>>> ==2874==    by 0x40011F7: ??? (in /lib64/ld-2.22.so)
>>> ==2874==    by 0x12: ???
>>> ==2874== 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> These are my configuration options. Identical for both petsc 3.9.4 and 
>>> 3.12.2:
>>> 
>>> ./configure --with-scalar-type=complex --download-mumps --download-parmetis 
>>> --download-metis --download-scalapack=1 --download-fblaslapack=1 
>>> --with-debugging=0 --download-superlu_dist=1 --download-ptscotch=1 
>>> CXXOPTFLAGS='-O3 -march=native' FOPTFLAGS='-O3 -march=native' 
>>> COPTFLAGS='-O3 -march=native'
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks in advance for any comments or ideas!
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Santiago
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their 
>>> experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their 
>>> experiments lead.
>>> -- Norbert Wiener
>>> 
>>> https://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/
>>> <test1.e6034496><valgrind.log.23361>
>> 
> 
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