[petsc-users] Error message Exit Code 9

[Jed Brown]

Garnet Vaz <garnet.vaz at gmail.com> writes:

> 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?

You can.  Does it run correctly for smaller problem sizes?  Look at
-log_summary for memory usage information.  The OOM killer seems the
most likely culprit.
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