[petsc-users] Error message Exit Code 9

[Jed Brown]

Garnet Vaz <garnet.vaz at gmail.com> writes:

> Dear all,
>
> My PETSc code crashes with the output
>
> "
> Number of lines in file is 5349000  #<----- Number of points
> Number of lines in file is 10695950  #<----- Number of triangles
> reading cell list successful
> reading vertex list successful
> Mesh distribution successful
>
> ===================================================================================
> =   BAD TERMINATION OF ONE OF YOUR APPLICATION PROCESSES
> =   EXIT CODE: 9
> =   CLEANING UP REMAINING PROCESSES
> =   YOU CAN IGNORE THE BELOW CLEANUP MESSAGES
> ===================================================================================
> YOUR APPLICATION TERMINATED WITH THE EXIT STRING: Killed (signal 9)

Signal 9 is SIGKILL, which cannot be caught.  This almost always means
that some other process killed your job.  Are there quotas on this
machine?  Maybe the machine ran out of memory?

> This typically refers to a problem with your application.
> Please see the FAQ page for debugging suggestions
> "
>
> I am using a debug version of PETSc. The same code has been working
> for smaller meshes (upto 3M triangles). I have run the code through valgrind
> and it reports no memory leaks for a smaller mesh.
>
> All my functions use PetscFunctionBegin()/End()
> which usually reports me the function causing the problem. In this case,
> the output does not help except for the exit code = 9. What does this mean?
>
> -- 
> Regards,
> Garnet Vaz
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