[petsc-users] Bad memory scaling with PETSc 3.10

[Zhang, Hong]

Myriam :
Thanks for your effort. It will help us improve PETSc.
Hong

Hi all,

I used the wrong script, that's why it diverged... Sorry about that.
I tried again with the right script applied on a tiny problem (~200
elements). I can see a small difference in memory usage (gain ~ 1mB).
when adding the -mat_freeintermediatestructures option. I still have to
execute larger cases to plot the scaling. The supercomputer I am used to
run my jobs on is really busy at the moment so it takes a while. I hope
I'll send you the results on Monday.

Thanks everyone,

Myriam


Le 04/11/19 à 06:01, Jed Brown a écrit :
> "Zhang, Hong" <hzhang at mcs.anl.gov<mailto:hzhang at mcs.anl.gov>> writes:
>
>> Jed:
>>>> Myriam,
>>>> Thanks for the plot. '-mat_freeintermediatedatastructures' should not affect solution. It releases almost half of memory in C=PtAP if C is not reused.
>>> And yet if turning it on causes divergence, that would imply a bug.
>>> Hong, are you able to reproduce the experiment to see the memory
>>> scaling?
>> I like to test his code using an alcf machine, but my hands are full now. I'll try it as soon as I find time, hopefully next week.
> I have now compiled and run her code locally.
>
> Myriam, thanks for your last mail adding configuration and removing the
> MemManager.h dependency.  I ran with and without
> -mat_freeintermediatedatastructures and don't see a difference in
> convergence.  What commands did you run to observe that difference?

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Myriam Peyrounette
CNRS/IDRIS - HLST
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