Petsc Error

[Berend van Wachem]

Hi Barry,

Yes, your hint seems correct; a single process can "only" allocate 3 
gigabytes of memory, even if there is more physical memory present.

Is the only work around to run parallel?

Thanks,
Berend.


Barry Smith wrote:
>   On most OS's just because you have greater than a certain amount of
> physical memory does not mean that a SINGLE process can utilize it.
> For example, many times a single process is limited to 2, 3 or 4 gigabytes.
> This is EVEN with 64 bit pointers (and certainly with 32 bit).
> 
>    Barry
> 
> Run a simple C program that mallocs a chunk of memory. How much you 
> you malloc?
> 
> On Tue, 9 Oct 2007, Berend van Wachem wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I ran the same command again, running top, and got the result
>>
>> Mem:   6220940k total,  5879056k used,   341884k free,   143992k buffers
>> Swap:  1951888k total,     2584k used,  1949304k free,  2363516k cached
>>
>>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>> 19117 berend    25   0 3037m 2.5g 3508 R  100 41.4   0:44.96 MultiFlow
>>
>>
>>
>> just before it crashed. I have a 2 processor machine with total 6 GB of memory
>> (2 times 3 gb?), so I don't think it should be out of memory. How can I verify
>> this for sure?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Berend.
>>
>>
>>
>> Matthew Knepley wrote:
>>> On 10/9/07, Berend van Wachem <berend at chalmers.se> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> On the command
>>>>
>>>>   ierr = DACreateLocalVector(da,g); CHKERRQ(ierr);
>>>>
>>>> I get the error
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: PetscMallocAlign() line 61 in src/sys/memory/mal.c
>>>> Memory requested 6050600
>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: PETSC: Attaching gdb to Debug/MultiFlow of pid 19087 on
>>>> display :0.0 on machine tfdpc102
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> What does it mean exactly? Out of memory?
>>> Yes. This is strange. The line above these two should read "Out of memory".
>>>
>>>   Matt
>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Berend.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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