> On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Lorenzo Zanon
> <za...@aices.rwth-aachen.de>wrote:
>
>> I get faster convergence with e.g. -snes_linesearch_type basic -ksp_rtol
>> 1e-4:
>>
>>   NL step  0, |residual|_2 = 3.464102e-05
>>   NL step  1, |residual|_2 = 2.417540e-04
>>   NL step  2, |residual|_2 = 6.174706e-08
>>   NL step  3, |residual|_2 = 3.577768e-12
>>   NL step  4, |residual|_2 = 7.687278e-17
>> StVen system solved at nonlinear iteration 4 , final nonlinear residual
>> norm: 7.687278e-17

Your ksp_rtol might be hurting your convergence a bit near the root...

Have you tried -snes_ksp_ew?  There are several EW-specific options
within you can play with as well:

http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-current/docs/manualpages/SNES/SNESSetFromOptions.html

-- 
John

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