[petsc-users] gmres restart

Matthew Knepley knepley at gmail.com
Mon Nov 29 17:08:50 CST 2010


On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Verena Kuhlemann <vkuhlem at emory.edu> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a (hopefully) quick question about setting the restart for gmres.
>
> I set the restart to be 50, but when I use KSPView it looks like GMRES
> still uses a restart of 30. It is possible that I overwrite my settings
> somehow? Here is the relevant part of my code:
>
> KSPCreate(PETSC_COMM_WORLD,&ksp);
> KSPSetOperators(ksp,A,A,DIFFERENT_NONZERO_PATTERN);
> KSPGMRESSetRestart(ksp,50);
>

This is ignored because you have not yet set the KSP type.


> KSPSetInitialGuessNonzero(ksp,PETSC_TRUE);
> KSPSetTolerances(ksp,1.e-12,1.e-12,PETSC_DEFAULT,100000);
> KSPSetUp(ksp);
>

If you move this before the restart call, the type wil be set and it will
work.

   Matt


> KSPGetPC(ksp,&pc);
> PCSetType(pc,PCNONE);
> KSPView(ksp,PETSC_VIEWER_STDOUT_WORLD);
> KSPSolve(ksp,b,x);
>
>
> Thanks,
> Verena
>



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