[petsc-dev] change default KSP max iterations

Lisandro Dalcin dalcinl at gmail.com
Tue Oct 14 02:30:14 CDT 2014


On 14 October 2014 06:30, Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org> wrote:
> Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> writes:
>
> Does the marginal value of saving seconds/minutes(?) for a solver to
> reach 10k iterations (when you forgot to enable enough monitoring to
> know what's happening) offset the confusion and alleged misbehavior for
> the people that want to keep iterating?

Following your reasoning, is 10k enough? While 250 is probably too
small, I still think that 10k is too much.

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