Re: not enough memory?!

["Matthew Knepley" <knepley@xxxxxxxxx>]

The routine which calculates ICC requested 3G, so it seems that the matrix
is too dense or large to be factored on this machine.

  Matt

On Nov 2, 2007 7:54 AM, Zhifeng Sheng <z.sheng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dear all
>
> I have a problem for memory management.
>
> I implemented 3d FEM code and at this moment SeqSBAIJ is used to store
> the system matrix, then I used CG method and ICC(k) preconditioner.
>
> The test configuration is not very big, I succeeded in constructing the
> system matrix and construct the preconditioner. But when I need to setup
> the KSP solver, I got the error message below ( I also dumped some
> information about solver and system matrix):
>
> KSP Object:
>   type: cg
>   maximum iterations=10000, initial guess is zero
>   tolerances:  relative=1e-09, absolute=1e-50, divergence=10000
>   left preconditioning
> PC Object:
>   type: icc
>     ICC: 2 levels of fill
>     ICC: factor fill ratio allocated 1
>   linear system matrix = precond matrix:
>   Matrix Object:
>     type=seqsbaij, rows=435450, cols=435450
>     total: nonzeros=9470450, allocated nonzeros=21772580
>         block size is 1
> [0]PETSC ERROR: --------------------- Error Message
> ------------------------------------
> [0]PETSC ERROR: Out of memory. This could be due to allocating
> [0]PETSC ERROR: too large an object or bleeding by not properly
> [0]PETSC ERROR: destroying unneeded objects.
> [0]PETSC ERROR: Memory allocated 375435120 Memory used by process 428597248
> [0]PETSC ERROR: Try running with -malloc_dump or -malloc_log for info.
> [0]PETSC ERROR: Memory requested 3108507040!
> [0]PETSC ERROR:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [0]PETSC ERROR: Petsc Release Version 2.3.2, Patch 10, Wed Mar 28
> 19:13:22 CDT 2007 HG revision: d7298c71db7f5e767f359ae35d33cab3bed44428
> [0]PETSC ERROR: See docs/changes/index.html for recent updates.
> [0]PETSC ERROR: See docs/faq.html for hints about trouble shooting.
> [0]PETSC ERROR: See docs/index.html for manual pages.
> [0]PETSC ERROR:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [0]PETSC ERROR: bin/main on a linux-gnu named callisto by zhifeng Fri
> Nov  2 13:26:39 2007
> [0]PETSC ERROR: Libraries linked from
> /u/01/01/zhifeng/install/lib/linux-gnu-c-debug
> [0]PETSC ERROR: Configure run at Wed Aug  8 13:46:26 2007
> [0]PETSC ERROR: Configure options --with-cc=gcc --with-fc=g77
> --download-f-blas-lapack=1 --download-mpich=1
> --prefix=/u/01/01/zhifeng/install --with-shared=0
> [0]PETSC ERROR:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [0]PETSC ERROR: PetscMallocAlign() line 61 in src/sys/memory/mal.c
> [0]PETSC ERROR: PetscTrMallocDefault() line 194 in src/sys/memory/mtr.c
> [0]PETSC ERROR: PetscFreeSpaceGet() line 14 in src/mat/utils/freespace.c
> [0]PETSC ERROR: MatICCFactorSymbolic_SeqSBAIJ() line 1648 in
> src/mat/impls/sbaij/seq/sbaijfact2.c
> [0]PETSC ERROR: MatICCFactorSymbolic() line 4611 in
> src/mat/interface/matrix.c
> [0]PETSC ERROR: PCSetup_ICC() line 117 in src/ksp/pc/impls/factor/icc/icc.c
> [0]PETSC ERROR: PCSetUp() line 801 in src/ksp/pc/interface/precon.c
> [0]PETSC ERROR: KSPSetUp() line 234 in src/ksp/ksp/interface/itfunc.c
> [0]PETSC ERROR: KSPSolve() line 338 in src/ksp/ksp/interface/itfunc.c
> =====================the solver convergence info======================
> Convergence in 0 iterations.
> =====================================================================
> writing solution to file temp_H.vtk ...
> number of unknowns >>435450
> finishing the numeric solver ...
> LSFIM hybrid method for four domain problem
> deallocating memory of domain class ...
>
>
> I debug the code, and the error is dumped by the funciton KSPSetUp()
> which should not take so much memory, but still 3108507040 memory was
> requested .... I really could not figure out where I need them...
>
> Any help will be appreciated.
>
> Thank you all
> Best regards
> Zhifeng
>
>



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