<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 21:06, Dave Nystrom <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Dave.Nystrom@tachyonlogic.com">Dave.Nystrom@tachyonlogic.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div id=":15o">It seems that whenever I am running my code with petsc and run top on linux<br>
it reports that my code is running something like 24-25 GB of memory, even if<br>
I am running a smallish problem. Is this normal? I just had a problem<br>
terminate because it ran out of memory and I had no idea that I was pushing<br>
any memory boundaries. I actually don't think the problem should have run<br>
out of memory but this behavior with top seems to keep it from being a useful<br>
tool for getting a sense of how much memory my code is using.</div></blockquote></div><br><div>1. Check -log_summary to see which object types the large allocations are coming from.</div><div><br></div><div>2. What are you running?</div>