[petsc-users] FormFunction: high Memory requested

Sun Oct 6 08:41:43 CDT 2019

On Sat, Oct 5, 2019 at 1:12 AM Amir <mhbaghaei at mail.sjtu.edu.cn> wrote:

> I tried to run with -pc_none or using other preconditioner than LU. The
> memory pattern remains the same, although the newton could not solve. For a
> Jacobian size of 180K*180K, do you think 5GB memory is much?
>

1.8e5 * 1.8e5 * 8 = 2.6e11 bytes so 5Gb is 2% fill in your matrix, which
might be completely reasonable.

   Matt

> Thanks
> Amir
> On Oct 5 2019, at 5:55 am, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 4:27 PM Amir via petsc-users <
> petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov
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> Hi
> To test my FormFunction, running the code on a coarse mesh, the memory
> usage is normal. However, when I try to use higher mesh resolution, the
> memory behavior is abnormal. It goes up till the program finished with
> Memory requested message. To better see the memory usage, I run with
> -log_view -malloc_test  -malloc_dump. All of vectors created, were
> destructed. Can you help me through this. Is it really because I use higher
> mesh resolution? Thanks for your time.
>
>
> Probably yes. The memory for LU goes up superlinearly and can be quite
> large.
>
>   Thanks,
>
>      Matt
>
>
> Amir
>
> [0]PETSC ERROR: Memory requested 8589934260
> [0]PETSC ERROR: See http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/documentation/faq.html
> for trouble shooting.
> [0]PETSC ERROR: Petsc Release Version 3.9.1, unknown
> [0]PETSC ERROR: ./main on a mpich-gcc-dbg named amir by amir Sat Oct  5
> 04:06:01 2019
> [0]PETSC ERROR: Configure options --download-mpich --download-fblaslapack
> --with-shared-libraries=1 --with-blaslapack-dir=/usr --with-x-dir=/
> --download-mumps --download-superlu_dist --download-hypre --download-ml
> --download-hdf5 --download-cmake --download-scalapack -download-parmetis
> -download-metis --with-mpich=1 --with-fortran-kernels=generic
> --with-debugging=0
> [0]PETSC ERROR: #1 PetscFreeSpaceGet() line 11 in
> /home/amir/petsc/src/mat/utils/freespace.c
> [0]PETSC ERROR: #2 PetscTrMallocDefault() line 183 in
> /home/amir/petsc/src/sys/memory/mtr.c
> [0]PETSC ERROR: #3 PetscMallocA() line 390 in
> /home/amir/petsc/src/sys/memory/mal.c
> [0]PETSC ERROR: #4 PetscFreeSpaceGet() line 11 in
> /home/amir/petsc/src/mat/utils/freespace.c
> [0]PETSC ERROR: #5 MatLUFactorSymbolic_SeqAIJ() line 349 in
> /home/amir/petsc/src/mat/impls/aij/seq/aijfact.c
> [0]PETSC ERROR: #6 MatLUFactorSymbolic() line 2975 in
> /home/amir/petsc/src/mat/interface/matrix.c
> [0]PETSC ERROR: #7 PCSetUp_LU() line 95 in
> /home/amir/petsc/src/ksp/pc/impls/factor/lu/lu.c
> [0]PETSC ERROR: #8 PCSetUp() line 923 in
> /home/amir/petsc/src/ksp/pc/interface/precon.c
> [0]PETSC ERROR: #9 KSPSetUp() line 381 in
> /home/amir/petsc/src/ksp/ksp/interface/itfunc.c
> [0]PETSC ERROR: #10 KSPSolve() line 612 in
> /home/amir/petsc/src/ksp/ksp/interface/itfunc.c
> [0]PETSC ERROR: #11 SNESSolve_NEWTONLS() line 224 in
> /home/amir/petsc/src/snes/impls/ls/ls.c
> [0]PETSC ERROR: #12 SNESSolve() line 4312 in
> /home/amir/petsc/src/snes/interface/snes.c
>
> [ 0]48 bytes PetscFreeSpaceGet() line 10 in
> /home/amir/petsc/src/mat/utils/freespace.c
> [ 0]1356241520 bytes PetscFreeSpaceGet() line 11 in
> /home/amir/petsc/src/mat/utils/freespace.c
> [ 0]48 bytes PetscFreeSpaceGet() line 10 in
> /home/amir/petsc/src/mat/utils/freespace.c
> [ 0]2227520 bytes MatLUFactorSymbolic_SeqAIJ() line 308 in
> /home/amir/petsc/src/mat/impls/aij/seq/aijfact.c
> [ 0]23216 bytes PetscBTCreate() line 75 in
> /home/amir/petsc/include/petscbt.h
> [ 0]742512 bytes MatLUFactorSymbolic_SeqAIJ() line 306 in
> /home/amir/petsc/src/mat/impls/aij/seq/aijfact.c
> [ 0]742512 bytes MatLUFactorSymbolic_SeqAIJ() line 301 in
> /home/amir/petsc/src/mat/impls/aij/seq/aijfact.c
> [ 0]742512 bytes MatLUFactorSymbolic_SeqAIJ() line 300 in
> /home/amir/petsc/src/mat/impls/aij/seq/aijfact.c
> [ 0]16 bytes PetscLayoutSetUp() line 141 in
> /home/amir/petsc/src/vec/is/utils/pmap.c
> [ 0]16 bytes PetscStrallocpy() line 189 in
> /home/amir/petsc/src/sys/utils/str.c
> [ 0]32 bytes PetscStrallocpy() line 189 in
> /home/amir/petsc/src/sys/utils/str.c
> [ 0]32 bytes PetscFunctionListAdd_Private() line 213 in
> /home/amir/petsc/src/sys/dll/reg.c
> [ 0]16 bytes ISCreate_General() line 740 in
> /home/amir/petsc/src/vec/is/is/impls/general/general.c
> [ 0]48 bytes PetscLayoutCreate() line 48 in
> /home/amir/petsc/src/vec/is/utils/pmap.c
> [ 0]784 bytes ISCreate() line 39 in
> /home/amir/petsc/src/vec/is/is/interface/isreg.c
> [ 0]742512 bytes ISInvertPermutation_General() line 205 in
> /home/amir/petsc/src/vec/is/is/impls/general/general.c
>
>
>
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