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    Ok, thank you for pointing me to this paper.<br>
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    On 21.03.2012 11:38, Jed Brown wrote:
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      <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 04:03, Alexander
        Grayver <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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          Hello,<br>
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          Plotting values of relative residual norm versus iteration I
          noticed that these curves have different behavior. For
          instance, ones I got with BiCGStab are oscillatory and rather
          noisy with large jumps within few iterations. Curves for QMR
          are smooth, however it's usual that they stagnate for ~10-20
          iterations and then go down further. Same preconditioner is
          applied for both and both methods are Lanczos based, so I
          don't understand this.<br>
          I'm wondering is this just my specific case or there is
          general explanation for that?<br>
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        <div>This is normal.</div>
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Regards,
Alexander</pre>
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