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<p>Hello Barry,</p>
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<p>I appreciate the clarification.</p>
<p>I tried to check the memory usage with seff and I got the following results: <br>
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<div>seff 7274633<br>
Job ID: 7274633<br>
Cluster: perlmutter<br>
User/Group: zjorti/zjorti<br>
State: COMPLETED (exit code 0)<br>
Nodes: 64<br>
Cores per node: 256<br>
CPU Utilized: 3-13:19:59<br>
CPU Efficiency: 3.88% of 91-14:11:12 core-walltime<br>
Job Wall-clock time: 00:08:03<br>
Memory Utilized: 958.68 GB (estimated maximum)<br>
Memory Efficiency: 0.00% of 0.00 MB (0.00 MB/node)</div>
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<p>Do you know how to interpret this?<br>
The memory utilized seems higher than the one given by -memory_view (<font style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, "EmojiFont";" size="3" face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;text-transform:none;" dir="ltr" id="divtagdefaultwrapper">3.1056e+11</span></font>)...</p>
<p>Thank you.<br>
Best,</p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, April 12, 2023 3:32:11 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Jorti, Zakariae<br>
<b>Cc:</b> petsc-users@mcs.anl.gov<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [EXTERNAL] Re: [petsc-users] Question about -memory_view</font>
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<div>On Apr 12, 2023, at 4:08 PM, Jorti, Zakariae via petsc-users <petsc-users@mcs.anl.gov> wrote:</div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Hello,</div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">I am running some matrix computations on 64 nodes, using 6<span>40 MPI tasks.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>And I wanted to check the memory usage with the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span>-memory_view</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>flag.</span></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">I get the following output:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
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<div>Summary of Memory Usage in PETSc<br>
Maximum (over computational time) process memory: total 3.1056e+11 max 5.9918e+08 min 4.2213e+08<br>
Current process memory: total 1.9194e+11 max 3.9960e+08 min 2.2761e+08</div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">What is the difference between maximum process memory and current process memory?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
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Over computational time means the maximum it ever was (the high water mark) and current means what it is right now. For memory usage obtained from the OS (what we call "process memory" in the output as opposed to PetscMalloc()ed memory) often the current
does not ever go below the maximum it ever was because the "extra now unneeded memory" is not returned to the OS. </div>
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Total is sum over all MPI ranks, max is maximum over all ranks, min is minimum over all ranks</div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Also, if the job fails because of memory shortage, will this -memory_view still output some information?<br>
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Generally not if the job fails before the memory information is printed. Usually one runs with smaller memory usage increasing the problem size several times to see how the memory usage scales with the problem size (linearly, quadratically, etc) and this
guides understanding the memory usage and if it can be improved. Just running with a large memory usage alone is not that useful in providing information.</div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Thank you.<br>
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