Problem in convergence after upgrade to petsc 3.0.0

[Barry Smith]

   Run the old code with -ksp_view_binary this will create a file  
called binaryoutput; you can then
run src/ksp/ksp/examples/tutorials/ex10.c using that input file. Use  
the ex10 from the old version
of PETSc and then the ex10 from the new version. Do they have they  
same convergence?
Now run the new code (that is build your code with petsc-3.0.) with - 
ksp_view_binary and run that
binaryoutput file with the old and new ex10 to see what happens.

    Basically there are two possible changes with the change in the  
version:
1) the matrix/right hand side has changed or
2) the solver has changed to behave differently.

    By running the four cases you can start to get a handle on what  
has actually changed, this will
lead you to what needs to be investigated next.

    Barry

On Jan 30, 2009, at 8:01 PM, Randall Mackie wrote:

> I just downloaded and compiled Petsc 3.0.0-p2, and after making some  
> changes
> in my code to specify the correct location of the include files,  
> finally
> got everything to compile okay.
>
> Now, I'm trying to run my test problem, and it's not converging.  
> When I say
> not converging, the first line (with ksp_monitor_true_residual)  
> shows that
> the true and preconditioned residuals are the same as before, but  
> immediately
> thereafter, the preconditioned residual fails to go below 1e-8  
> whereas before
> it quickly went down to 1e-15.
>
> The options in my command file are:
>
> -ksp_type bcgsl
> -pc_type bjacobi
> -sub_pc_type ilu
> -sub_pc_factor_levels 3
> -sub_pc_factor_fill 6
>
>
> The only thing I see in the Change notes are that the ILU defaults  
> to shifting
> so that it's p.d. but I don't see an easy way to turn this off by  
> the command
> line to see if that's the problem. I tried to do it in my program,  
> but it's unclear
> if I did that correctly.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks, Randy