[petsc-users] Problem with PETSc + HDF5 VecView

[Jed Brown]

Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> writes:

>> On Nov 26, 2014, at 3:35 PM, Håkon Strandenes <haakon at hakostra.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>> Is it really PETSc's taks to warn about this? PETSc should trust HDF5 to "just work" and HDF5 should actually print sensible warnings/error messages. Shouldn't it?
>
>    Yes, but if we produce a nice error message it makes everyone's
>    lives easier, including ours because we don't have to constantly
>    answer emails about the same problem discovered by a new person
>    over and over again. Hence we do this kind of thing a lot.

The only concern is that the user might not exceed that depth, so why
should they have to set an arbitrary and excessively big value?

MPI_REQUEST_MAX and MPI_COMM_MAX also look like candidates for needing
increases.

Whoever is responsible for this perversion should be fired.
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