[petsc-users] Error message Exit Code 9

[Garnet Vaz]

Hi Jed,

The problem is being caused from Out of Memory error.
So I am going to stick to the smaller problems.

Thanks a lot.

-
Garnet Vaz


On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 5:25 PM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> Garnet Vaz <garnet.vaz at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Hi Jed,
> >
> > Yes. It has been running fine for problems up to 3M triangles.
> > /var/log/messages does say that the process is killed.
> >
> > Changed the oom options to allow over-commiting. I think it
> > should work now.
>
> Hmm, normally when over-commit is turned off, malloc will return NULL,
> but when turned on (default on most systems), _some_ process will be
> killed when you run out of memory.  The process receiving SIGKILL is
> somehow evaluated to be a memory offender by the operating system, but
> may not be the process "responsible".
>



-- 
Regards,
Garnet
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