[petsc-users] Error message Exit Code 9

[Garnet Vaz]

Hi Jed,

Thanks. The output of quota reads "unlimited".
The system memory is 16GB.

Doing "ulimit -m" gives 13938212
in kilobytes which corresponds to 13GB. I think this means
that I should be able to use most of it. I am the only person
running jobs on this machine right now.

I can run with -memory_info for the smaller problem and try
to extrapolate. Is this a good idea?

-
Garnet Vaz



On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> Garnet Vaz <garnet.vaz at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > My PETSc code crashes with the output
> >
> > "
> > Number of lines in file is 5349000  #<----- Number of points
> > Number of lines in file is 10695950  #<----- Number of triangles
> > reading cell list successful
> > reading vertex list successful
> > Mesh distribution successful
> >
> >
> ===================================================================================
> > =   BAD TERMINATION OF ONE OF YOUR APPLICATION PROCESSES
> > =   EXIT CODE: 9
> > =   CLEANING UP REMAINING PROCESSES
> > =   YOU CAN IGNORE THE BELOW CLEANUP MESSAGES
> >
> ===================================================================================
> > YOUR APPLICATION TERMINATED WITH THE EXIT STRING: Killed (signal 9)
>
> Signal 9 is SIGKILL, which cannot be caught.  This almost always means
> that some other process killed your job.  Are there quotas on this
> machine?  Maybe the machine ran out of memory?
>
> > This typically refers to a problem with your application.
> > Please see the FAQ page for debugging suggestions
> > "
> >
> > I am using a debug version of PETSc. The same code has been working
> > for smaller meshes (upto 3M triangles). I have run the code through
> valgrind
> > and it reports no memory leaks for a smaller mesh.
> >
> > All my functions use PetscFunctionBegin()/End()
> > which usually reports me the function causing the problem. In this case,
> > the output does not help except for the exit code = 9. What does this
> mean?
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Garnet Vaz
>



-- 
Regards,
Garnet
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