[petsc-users] Error message Exit Code 9

[Garnet Vaz]

Hi Jed,

Yes. It has been running fine for problems up to 3M triangles.
/var/log/messages does say that the process is killed.

Changed the oom options to allow over-commiting. I think it
should work now.

Thanks.
-
Garnet






On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> 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.
>



-- 
Regards,
Garnet
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