[petsc-users] memory increase in a transient calculation but no valgrind errors

[Matthew Knepley]

On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Dominik Szczerba <dominik at itis.ethz.ch>wrote:

> > Its always possible that dstat is showing memory fragmentation. If the
> > problems are the same size, you might benefit from pooling.
> >
> >    Matt
>
> What is pooling, can you provide a pointer please?
>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_pool

Its what DMDAGetGlobalVector() does.

   Matt


> Thanks
> Dominik
>



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