<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 10:40, Derek Gaston <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:friedmud@gmail.com">friedmud@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>I see, so one of those is the MFFD which really isn't taking up much space. I suppose that's why going from 2->3 matrices ~doubled the memory.</div>
<div><br></div><div>So there's probably nothing wrong here... those matrices are needed and really do take up that much memory... damn ;-)</div></blockquote></div><br><div>When you run with -snes_view, you see the number of nonzeros for all matrices in the system. Third order elements are really expensive.</div>