<div dir="ltr">-snes_type ksponly would be the appropriate option.  KSPOnly does *only* one iteration consisting of a single KSP solve ( <a href="http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-current/src/snes/impls/ksponly/ksponly.c.html" target="_blank">http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-current/src/snes/impls/ksponly/ksponly.c.html</a> ).<div>

<br></div><div>Are you seeing different behavior than this?</div><div><br></div><div>- Peter</div></div>