[petsc-users] Out of memory - diffusion equation eigenvalues

[Mark Adams]

3D uses a lot more memory. This is a crazy number (18446744069467867136).
How large is your system?

On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 7:20 PM Rodrigo Piccinini via petsc-users <
petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to solve for the first ten smallest eigenvalues of a diffusion
> equation in a 3d heterogeneous medium (varying diffusion coefficient), but
> I'm getting an error message:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "eigendrake_spe10_v2.py", line 121, in <module>
>>     es.solve()
>>   File "SLEPc/EPS.pyx", line 1132, in slepc4py.SLEPc.EPS.solve
>> petsc4py.PETSc.Error: error code 55
>> [0] EPSSolve() line 136 in
>> /tmp/pip-req-build-6t_4bkg3/src/eps/interface/epssolve.c
>> [0] EPSSetUp() line 269 in
>> /tmp/pip-req-build-6t_4bkg3/src/eps/interface/epssetup.c
>> [0] STSetUp() line 271 in
>> /tmp/pip-req-build-6t_4bkg3/src/sys/classes/st/interface/stsolve.c
>> [0] STSetUp_Shift() line 119 in
>> /tmp/pip-req-build-6t_4bkg3/src/sys/classes/st/impls/shift/shift.c
>> [0] KSPSetUp() line 391 in
>> /tmp/pip-req-build-070lpqqd/src/ksp/ksp/interface/itfunc.c
>> [0] PCSetUp() line 932 in
>> /tmp/pip-req-build-070lpqqd/src/ksp/pc/interface/precon.c
>> [0] PCSetUp_LU() line 99 in
>> /tmp/pip-req-build-070lpqqd/src/ksp/pc/impls/factor/lu/lu.c
>> [0] MatLUFactorSymbolic() line 3111 in
>> /tmp/pip-req-build-070lpqqd/src/mat/interface/matrix.c
>> [0] MatLUFactorSymbolic_SeqAIJ() line 366 in
>> /tmp/pip-req-build-070lpqqd/src/mat/impls/aij/seq/aijfact.c
>> [0] PetscMallocA() line 390 in
>> /tmp/pip-req-build-070lpqqd/src/sys/memory/mal.c
>> [0] MatLUFactorSymbolic_SeqAIJ() line 366 in
>> /tmp/pip-req-build-070lpqqd/src/mat/impls/aij/seq/aijfact.c
>> [0] Out of memory. Allocated: 0, Used by process: 14097043456
>> [0] Memory requested 18446744069467867136
>
>
> I'm using code from Firedrake Project <https://www.firedrakeproject.org/>
> (finite-element method) to discretize the equations.
> My code is available here:
> https://github.com/rbpiccinini/codes/blob/master/eigendrake/eigendrake_spe10_v2.py
>
> The code was run with 64GB available as RAM memory. The requested memory
> seems to be abnormally high, though.
> I'm able to solve for the eigenvalues of a 2d smaller problem. However, if
> I try to solve the 3d problem, I get the out of memory error.
>
> Could anybody help me understand the issue?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> --
> Rodrigo
>
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