[petsc-users] Hypre running out of memory.

[Mark F. Adams]

On Aug 22, 2013, at 9:42 AM, subramanya sadasiva <potaman at outlook.com> wrote:

> Hi, 
> I have been trying to use hypre to precondition my Linear Elasticity solver and I've been running out of memory . The problem is that the code is not failing gracefully. The server, where I am running the code on just stops responding and one needs to wait till the code crashes.  Can I force the code to crash gracefully when it runs out of memory?
> 

We try to make things fail gracefully but it sounds like you are paging (so not really running out of memory) and you are bring the machine to its knees.  Perhaps you can turn paging off?  Once your paging your dead anyway.

> Thanks, 
> Subramanya 

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