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<div class="">Yes it is parallel so the preallocation calls are not lowered by the allocation.</div>
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<div class="">I am trying to use MatXAIJSetPreallocation, but not sure how, since the following link does not give an example:</div>
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<div class="">If I have the following matrix:</div>
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<div class="">How should I put in the parameters of MatXAIJSetPreallocation?</div>
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<div dir="auto" class="">Please read this page to understand the info required</div>
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<div dir="auto" class="">Compute everything as described above and give the results to MatXAIJSetPreallocation(). MatXAIJSetPreallocation() is just a helper function to hide all the implementation specific setters.</div>
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<div dir="auto" class="">Thanks</div>
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<div class="">Thank you very much for your reply. That is indeed the problem. I have been working with matrices in Slepc but I don’t really understand it. I tried to preallocate but it still does not work.<span class=""> </span></div>
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<div dir="auto" class="">Meaning the number of reported mallocs is still non-zero?</div>
<div dir="auto" class="">Is the number reported with you preallocation calls lower than what you originally saw?</div>
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<div class="">If you look at my code below:</div>
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<div class="">ierr = MatCreate(PETSC_COMM_WORLD,&A);CHKERRQ(ierr);</div>
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<div class="">ierr = MatSetFromOptions(A);CHKERRQ(ierr);</div>
<div class="">ierr = MatSetUp(A);CHKERRQ(ierr);</div>
<div class="">ierr = MatGetOwnershipRange(A,&Istart,&Iend);CHKERRQ(ierr);</div>
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<div class="">MatSeqAIJSetPreallocation(A,0,nnz); <span class=""> </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""></span>// I try to preallocate here, where nnz is the array containing the number of non-zero entries
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<div class="">I am not sure what other information I need to give for the pre-allocation…</div>
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<div dir="auto" class="">This looks fine. However MatSeqAIJSetPreallocation() has no effect if the Mat type is not SEQAIJ.</div>
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<div dir="auto" class="">Are you running in parallel? If yes then the Mat type will be MATMPIAIJ and you either have to call the MPI specific preallocator or use the generic one I pointed you too.</div>
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