[petsc-dev] PetscLogView vs. -log_summary
Barry Smith
bsmith at mcs.anl.gov
Thu Jun 21 17:16:17 CDT 2012
On Jun 21, 2012, at 3:40 PM, Matthew Knepley wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Blaise Bourdin <bourdin at lsu.edu> wrote:
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> On Jun 21, 2012, at 2:55 PM, Matthew Knepley wrote:
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>> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Blaise Bourdin <bourdin at math.lsu.edu> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> PetscLogView does not display the same amount of information as running with -log_summary. In the "summary of stages" section, the former contains only information on the main stage while the later contains much more.
>>
>> Add the following block at the end of src/snes/examples/tutorials/ex1.c, for instance, to see what I mean
>> PetscViewer viewer;
>> ierr = PetscViewerASCIIOpen(PETSC_COMM_WORLD,"ex1-log.py",&viewer);CHKERRQ(ierr);
>> ierr = PetscLogViewPython(viewer);CHKERRQ(ierr);
>> ierr = PetscViewerDestroy(&viewer);CHKERRQ(ierr);
>> ierr = PetscViewerASCIIOpen(PETSC_COMM_WORLD,"ex1-log.txt",&viewer);CHKERRQ(ierr);
>> ierr = PetscLogView(viewer);CHKERRQ(ierr);
>> ierr = PetscViewerDestroy(&viewer);CHKERRQ(ierr);
>> ierr = PetscLogPrintDetailed(PETSC_COMM_WORLD,"ex1-logdetailed.txt");CHKERRQ(ierr);
>>
>> Is this a bug or a feature? Is there a way to get the same output as -log_summary in a file, without printing it to stdout?
>>
>> -log_summary just calls PetscLogView(). I am not sure how there could be a problem. I will run it. However, can you
>> just use
>>
>> -log_summary <filename>
>
> That works, yes. Is the issue that stages / events need to be activated a priori, which is not possible when PetscLogView is only called at the end of the program?
>
> Crap.
Matt, why is this "Crap" its completely reasonable that if you want to have logging from program control that you have to turn it on programatically?
> If you do not provide -log_summary, you need PetscLogBegin() at the beginning.
>
> Matt
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> The caveat is that I am assuming that when using log_summary, the log is written as part of PetscFinalize, so that if a job is killed by the sceduler or the user, there is no way to get an idea of the performances. I like to print the log every so often.
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> Blaise
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