Error codes from external packages

[Matthew Knepley]

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 7:17 AM, Lars Rindorf
<Lars.Rindorf at teknologisk.dk> wrote:
> Dear all
>
> If I want to know the error codes of an external package that crashes,
> then what can I do?

We call

  umfpack_zl_report_status()

with the UMFPACK status code in the event of a failure. Printing for this is
controlled by the -mat_umfpack_prl option I believe.

   Matt

> The problem arises with umfpack when the size of the matrix is more than
> 118000x118000, corresponding to 2.4 Gb memory consumption. It simply
> returns "umfpack_di_numeric" (factorization of a real matrix) failed.
> Has anybody else experienced this?
>
> KR, Lars
>
>



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