[petsc-users] Problem with "likely location of problem given in stack below"?

Alan Wei zhenglun.wei at gmail.com
Sat Apr 7 16:34:35 CDT 2012


Thanks,
Alan

On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 15:41, Alan Wei <zhenglun.wei at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>     I got a problem with /ksp/ksp/example/tutorial. I was trying to
>> execute this example with petsc-dev in a share  memory dell workstation
>> with 8 cores. The parameter for DMDACreate2d is 500, 500, which means it
>> generates a 1997*1997 2d grid. It is fine to run it with single process
>> with either "./ex29" or "mpiexec -np 1 ./exe29". However, it came across a
>> error when I tempted to run it with more than 1 process. The error message
>> is like this, when I was trying to execute it with 4 processes. I was
>> thinking about if the 'stack size' is the problem, so I enlarge it to
>> 1000000000 with 'ulimit' command. However, the same error message keeps
>> showing up.
>
>
> This custom viewer (in the example) is broken in parallel and has always
> been broken in parallel. I don't know who wrote it, but it should be
> removed since there is a binary VTK PetscViewer now.
>
> Matt, this has come up a few times before and I thought you defended that
> viewer. Is there anything it does that VecView with PETSCVIEWERVTK does not?
>
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