[petsc-users] killed 9 signal after upgrade from petsc 3.9.4 to 3.12.2

Santiago Andres Triana repepo at gmail.com
Thu Jan 9 14:16:18 CST 2020


Dear all,

I think parmetis is not involved since I still run out of memory if I use
the following options:
export opts='-st_type sinvert -st_ksp_type preonly -st_pc_type lu
-st_pc_factor_mat_solver_type superlu_dist -eps_true_residual 1'
and  issuing:
mpiexec -n 24 ./ex7 -f1 A.petsc -f2 B.petsc -eps_nev 1 -eps_target
-4.008e-3+1.57142i $opts -eps_target_magnitude -eps_tol 1e-14 -memory_view

Bottom line is that the memory usage of petsc-3.9.4 / slepc-3.9.2 is much
lower than current version. I can only solve relatively small problems
using the 3.12 series :(
I have an example with smaller matrices that will likely fail in a 32 Gb
ram machine with petsc-3.12 but runs just fine with petsc-3.9. The
-memory_view output is

with petsc-3.9.4: (log 'justfine.log' attached)

Summary of Memory Usage in PETSc
Maximum (over computational time) process memory:        total 1.6665e+10
max 7.5674e+08 min 6.4215e+08
Current process memory:                                  total 1.5841e+10
max 7.2881e+08 min 6.0905e+08
Maximum (over computational time) space PetscMalloc()ed: total 3.1290e+09
max 1.5868e+08 min 1.0179e+08
Current space PetscMalloc()ed:                           total 1.8808e+06
max 7.8368e+04 min 7.8368e+04


with petsc-3.12.2: (log 'toobig.log' attached)

Summary of Memory Usage in PETSc
Maximum (over computational time) process memory:        total 3.1564e+10
max 1.3662e+09 min 1.2604e+09
Current process memory:                                  total 3.0355e+10
max 1.3082e+09 min 1.2254e+09
Maximum (over computational time) space PetscMalloc()ed: total 2.7618e+09
max 1.4339e+08 min 8.6493e+07
Current space PetscMalloc()ed:                           total 3.6127e+06
max 1.5053e+05 min 1.5053e+05

Strangely, monitoring with 'top' I can see *appreciably higher* peak memory
use, usually twice what -memory_view ends up reporting, both for
petsc-3.9.4 and current. Program fails usually at this peak if not enough
ram available

The matrices for the example quoted above can be downloaded here (I use
slepc's tutorial ex7.c to solve the problem):
https://www.dropbox.com/s/as9bec9iurjra6r/A.petsc?dl=0  (about 600 Mb)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/u2bbmng23rp8l91/B.petsc?dl=0  (about 210 Mb)

I haven't been able to use a debugger successfully since I am using a
compute node without the possibility of an xterm ... note that I have no
experience using a debugger so any help on that will also be appreciated!
Hope I can switch to the current petsc/slepc version for my production runs
soon...

Thanks again!
Santiago



On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 4:25 PM Stefano Zampini <stefano.zampini at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Can you reproduce the issue with smaller matrices? Or with a debug build
> (i.e. using —with-debugging=1 and compilation flags -02 -g)?
>
> The only changes in parmetis between the two PETSc releases are these
> below, but I don’t see how they could cause issues
>
> kl-18448:pkg-parmetis szampini$ git log -2
> commit ab4fedc6db1f2e3b506be136e3710fcf89ce16ea (*HEAD -> **master*, *tag:
> v4.0.3-p5*, *origin/master*, *origin/dalcinl/random*, *origin/HEAD*)
> Author: Lisandro Dalcin <dalcinl at gmail.com>
> Date:   Thu May 9 18:44:10 2019 +0300
>
>     GKLib: Make FPRFX##randInRange() portable for 32bit/64bit indices
>
> commit 2b4afc79a79ef063f369c43da2617fdb64746dd7
> Author: Lisandro Dalcin <dalcinl at gmail.com>
> Date:   Sat May 4 17:22:19 2019 +0300
>
>     GKlib: Use gk_randint32() to define the RandomInRange() macro
>
>
>
> On Jan 9, 2020, at 4:31 AM, Smith, Barry F. via petsc-users <
> petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>
>
>  This is extremely worrisome:
>
> ==23361== Use of uninitialised value of size 8
> ==23361==    at 0x847E939: gk_randint64 (random.c:99)
> ==23361==    by 0x847EF88: gk_randint32 (random.c:128)
> ==23361==    by 0x81EBF0B: libparmetis__Match_Global (in
> /space/hpc-home/trianas/petsc-3.12.3/arch-linux2-c-debug/lib/libparmetis.so)
>
> do you get that with PETSc-3.9.4 or only with 3.12.3?
>
>   This may result in Parmetis using non-random numbers and then giving
> back an inappropriate ordering that requires more memory for SuperLU_DIST.
>
>  Suggest looking at the code, or running in the debugger to see what is
> going on there. We use parmetis all the time and don't see this.
>
>  Barry
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Jan 8, 2020, at 4:34 PM, Santiago Andres Triana <repepo at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Dear Matt, petsc-users:
>
> Finally back after the holidays to try to solve this issue, thanks for
> your patience!
> I compiled the latest petsc (3.12.3) with debugging enabled, the same
> problem appears: relatively large matrices result in out of memory errors.
> This is not the case for petsc-3.9.4, all fine there.
> This is a non-hermitian, generalized eigenvalue problem, I generate the A
> and B matrices myself and then I use example 7 (from the slepc tutorial at
> $SLEPC_DIR/src/eps/examples/tutorials/ex7.c ) to solve the problem:
>
> mpiexec -n 24 valgrind --tool=memcheck -q --num-callers=20
> --log-file=valgrind.log.%p ./ex7 -malloc off -f1 A.petsc -f2 B.petsc
> -eps_nev 1 -eps_target -2.5e-4+1.56524i -eps_target_magnitude -eps_tol
> 1e-14 $opts
>
> where the $opts variable is:
> export opts='-st_type sinvert -st_ksp_type preonly -st_pc_type lu
> -eps_error_relative ::ascii_info_detail -st_pc_factor_mat_solver_type
> superlu_dist -mat_superlu_dist_iterrefine 1 -mat_superlu_dist_colperm
> PARMETIS -mat_superlu_dist_parsymbfact 1 -eps_converged_reason
> -eps_conv_rel -eps_monitor_conv -eps_true_residual 1'
>
> the output from valgrind (sample from one processor) and from the program
> are attached.
> If it's of any use the matrices are here (might need at least 180 Gb of
> ram to solve the problem succesfully under petsc-3.9.4):
>
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/as9bec9iurjra6r/A.petsc?dl=0
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/u2bbmng23rp8l91/B.petsc?dl=0
>
> WIth petsc-3.9.4 and slepc-3.9.2 I can use matrices up to 10Gb (with 240
> Gb ram), but only up to 3Gb with the latest petsc/slepc.
> Any suggestions, comments or any other help are very much appreciated!
>
> Cheers,
> Santiago
>
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 11:19 PM Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 3:14 PM Santiago Andres Triana <repepo at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> After upgrading to petsc 3.12.2 my solver program crashes consistently.
> Before the upgrade I was using petsc 3.9.4 with no problems.
>
> My application deals with a complex-valued, generalized eigenvalue
> problem. The matrices involved are relatively large, typically 2 to 10 Gb
> in size, which is no problem for petsc 3.9.4.
>
> Are you sure that your indices do not exceed 4B? If so, you need to
> configure using
>
>  --with-64-bit-indices
>
> Also, it would be nice if you ran with the debugger so we can get a stack
> trace for the SEGV.
>
>  Thanks,
>
>    Matt
>
> However, after the upgrade I can only obtain solutions when the matrices
> are small, the solver crashes when the matrices' size exceed about 1.5 Gb:
>
> [0]PETSC ERROR:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [0]PETSC ERROR: Caught signal number 15 Terminate: Some process (or the
> batch system) has told this process to end
> [0]PETSC ERROR: Try option -start_in_debugger or -on_error_attach_debugger
> [0]PETSC ERROR: or see
> https://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/documentation/faq.html#valgrind
> [0]PETSC ERROR: or try http://valgrind.org on GNU/linux and Apple Mac OS
> X to find memory corruption errors
> [0]PETSC ERROR: configure using --with-debugging=yes, recompile, link, and
> run
> [0]PETSC ERROR: to get more information on the crash.
>
> and so on for each cpu.
>
>
> I tried using valgrind and this is the typical output:
>
> ==2874== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)
> ==2874==    at 0x4018178: index (in /lib64/ld-2.22.so)
> ==2874==    by 0x400752D: expand_dynamic_string_token (in /lib64/
> ld-2.22.so)
> ==2874==    by 0x4008009: _dl_map_object (in /lib64/ld-2.22.so)
> ==2874==    by 0x40013E4: map_doit (in /lib64/ld-2.22.so)
> ==2874==    by 0x400EA53: _dl_catch_error (in /lib64/ld-2.22.so)
> ==2874==    by 0x4000ABE: do_preload (in /lib64/ld-2.22.so)
> ==2874==    by 0x4000EC0: handle_ld_preload (in /lib64/ld-2.22.so)
> ==2874==    by 0x40034F0: dl_main (in /lib64/ld-2.22.so)
> ==2874==    by 0x4016274: _dl_sysdep_start (in /lib64/ld-2.22.so)
> ==2874==    by 0x4004A99: _dl_start (in /lib64/ld-2.22.so)
> ==2874==    by 0x40011F7: ??? (in /lib64/ld-2.22.so)
> ==2874==    by 0x12: ???
> ==2874==
>
>
> These are my configuration options. Identical for both petsc 3.9.4 and
> 3.12.2:
>
> ./configure --with-scalar-type=complex --download-mumps
> --download-parmetis --download-metis --download-scalapack=1
> --download-fblaslapack=1 --with-debugging=0 --download-superlu_dist=1
> --download-ptscotch=1 CXXOPTFLAGS='-O3 -march=native' FOPTFLAGS='-O3
> -march=native' COPTFLAGS='-O3 -march=native'
>
>
> Thanks in advance for any comments or ideas!
>
> Cheers,
> Santiago
>
>
> --
> What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their
> experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their
> experiments lead.
> -- Norbert Wiener
>
> https://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/
> <test1.e6034496><valgrind.log.23361>
>
>
>
>
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