On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 21:06, Dave Nystrom <Dave.Nystrom at tachyonlogic.com>wrote:
> It seems that whenever I am running my code with petsc and run top on linux > it reports that my code is running something like 24-25 GB of memory, even > if > I am running a smallish problem. Is this normal? I just had a problem > terminate because it ran out of memory and I had no idea that I was pushing > any memory boundaries. I actually don't think the problem should have run > out of memory but this behavior with top seems to keep it from being a > useful > tool for getting a sense of how much memory my code is using. > 1. Check -log_summary to see which object types the large allocations are coming from. 2. What are you running? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-dev/attachments/20111202/a5d6ff23/attachment.html>