KSPMonitorTrueResidualNorm and SNES

Matthew Knepley knepley at gmail.com
Wed Oct 28 16:07:35 CDT 2009


On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Lukasz Kaczmarczyk
<likask at civil.gla.ac.uk>wrote:

>
>  I will switch off monitor after first linear solution phase using
>> KSPMonitorCancel. SNESSetFromOptions should set up it once again
>>
> Unfortunately this is not working.
>

Can you reproduce this with an example, like SNES ex5?

  Matt


>  On 28 Oct 2009, at 16:40, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>  You are calling SNESSetFromOptions() or KSPSetFromOptions() twice. If
>>> you call it once the problem won't appear.
>>>
>>>  There is an extremely ugly hack that is implemented for the default
>>> monitor, but not other monitors, to prevent this double printing. Whoever
>>> wrote this ugly hack should have done it properly.
>>>
>>>  Barry
>>>
>>> On Oct 28, 2009, at 2:39 AM, Lukasz Kaczmarczyk wrote:
>>>
>>>  Hi Matt
>>>>
>>>> I add monitor from options only.
>>>>
>>>> Pleas note that for default KSP monitor a norm of preconditioned
>>>> residual is printed only once. Problem exists when I monitor true residuals.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Lukasz
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 27 Oct 2009, at 23:23, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  It is possible to add the monitor twice. Are you sure this did not
>>>>> happen?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>>  Matt
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Lukasz Kaczmarczyk <
>>>>> likask at civil.gla.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have noticed minor problem, potentially bug. For nonlinear analysis
>>>>> with SNES and option -ksp_monitor_true_residual I get
>>>>> 0 Norm Res_strain 9.36e-12 Norm Res_stress 1.43e-05 Internal its   1
>>>>> 0 SNES Function norm 1.428489691212e-05
>>>>>  0 KSP preconditioned resid norm 7.213823259362e-04 true resid norm
>>>>> 1.428489691212e-05 ||Ae||/||Ax|| 1.000000000000e+00
>>>>>  0 KSP preconditioned resid norm 7.213823259362e-04 true resid norm
>>>>> 1.428489691212e-05 ||Ae||/||Ax|| 1.000000000000e+00
>>>>>  1 KSP preconditioned resid norm 4.903423697449e-04 true resid norm
>>>>> 9.339595309685e-06 ||Ae||/||Ax|| 6.538090801174e-01
>>>>>  1 KSP preconditioned resid norm 4.903423697449e-04 true resid norm
>>>>> 9.339595309685e-06 ||Ae||/||Ax|| 6.538090801174e-01
>>>>>
>>>>> It look that function KSPMonitorTrueResidualNorm is evaluated twice,
>>>>> whereas for default KSP monitor only once. I use petsc-3.0.0-p7.
>>>>>
>>>>> Kind regards,
>>>>> Lukasz
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> 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
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
> Lukasz Kaczmarczyk
> Lecturer
> Department of Civil Engineering,
> University of Glasgow,
> GLASGOW, G12 8LT
> Tel: +44 141 3305348
> email: likask at civil.gla.ac.uk
> web: http://www.civil.gla.ac.uk/~kaczmarczyk/<http://www.civil.gla.ac.uk/%7Ekaczmarczyk/>
> web: http://code.google.com/p/yaffems/
>
>


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is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments
lead.
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