On May 2, 2014, at 5:29 PM, Song Gao <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks for your quick reply.  What confused me is that why would the code 
> works fine if I reset the gmres restart number by recalling 
> kspgmressetrestart just before kspsolve? 

   It isn’t really working. Something is going wrong (run with valgrind) and 
setting that restart number and starting the solver just puts it in a “happier” 
state so it seems to make more progress.

   Barry

> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On May 2, 2014, at 6:03 PM, "Barry Smith" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Your shell matrix is buggy in some way. Whenever the residual norm jumps 
>> like crazy at a restart it means that something is wrong with the operator.
>> 
>>  Barry
>> 
>>> On May 2, 2014, at 4:41 PM, Song Gao <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Dear PETSc users,
>>> 
>>> I'm solving a linear system in KSP and trying to setup the solver in codes. 
>>> But I feel strange because my codes don't converge unless I call 
>>> KSPGMRESSetRestart twice.
>>> 
>>> My codes looks like
>>> 
>>> call KSPSetOperators ( pet_solv, pet_mat_mf_shell, pet_matp, 
>>> DIFFERENT_NONZERO_PATTERN, ierpetsc )
>>> call KSPSetType ( pet_solv, 'gmres', ierpetsc )
>>> call KSPGMRESSetRestart ( pet_solv, 30, ierpetsc )
>>> call KSPGetPC ( pet_solv, pet_precon, ierpetsc )
>>> call PCSetType ( pet_precon, 'asm', ierpetsc )
>>> call PCASMSetOverlap ( pet_precon, 1, ierpetsc )
>>> call KSPSetUp ( pet_solv, ierpetsc )
>>> call PCASMGetSubKSP ( pet_precon, n_local, first_local, pet_solv_sub, 
>>> ierpetsc )  ! n_local is one
>>> call KSPGetPC ( pet_solv_sub(1), pet_precon_sub, ierpetsc )
>>> call PCSetType ( pet_precon_sub, 'jacobi', ierpetsc )
>>> call PCJacobiSetUseRowMax ( pet_precon_sub, ierpetsc )
>>> call KSPSetFromOptions ( pet_solv, ierpetsc )
>>> call KSPGMRESSetRestart ( pet_solv, 29, ierpetsc )           ! adding this 
>>> line, the codes converge
>>> call KSPSolve ( pet_solv, pet_rhsp, pet_solup, ierpetsc )
>>> 
>>> runing with 1 CPU  WITHOUT the line with red color and the codes don't 
>>> converge  
>>> 
>>> runtime options:   -ksp_monitor_true_residual -ksp_view
>>> 0 KSP preconditioned resid norm 6.585278940829e+00 true resid norm 
>>> 9.619278462343e-03 ||r(i)||/||b|| 1.000000000000e+00
>>> 1 KSP preconditioned resid norm 6.585278219510e+00 true resid norm 
>>> 9.619278462343e-03 ||r(i)||/||b|| 1.000000000000e+00
>>> 2 KSP preconditioned resid norm 2.198638170622e+00 true resid norm 
>>> 1.365132713014e-01 ||r(i)||/||b|| 1.419163317039e+01
>>> 3 KSP preconditioned resid norm 1.599896387215e+00 true resid norm 
>>> 1.445988845022e-01 ||r(i)||/||b|| 1.503219654865e+01
>>> .......
>>> 28 KSP preconditioned resid norm 4.478466011191e-01 true resid norm 
>>> 1.529879309381e-01 ||r(i)||/||b|| 1.590430420920e+01
>>> 29 KSP preconditioned resid norm 4.398129572260e-01 true resid norm 
>>> 1.530132924055e-01 ||r(i)||/||b|| 1.590694073413e+01
>>> 30 KSP preconditioned resid norm 2.783227613716e+12 true resid norm 
>>> 1.530369123550e-01 ||r(i)||/||b|| 1.590939621450e+01
>>> 
>>> KSP Object: 1 MPI processes
>>> type: gmres
>>>   GMRES: restart=30, using Classical (unmodified) Gram-Schmidt 
>>> Orthogonalization with no iterative refinement
>>>   GMRES: happy breakdown tolerance 1e-30
>>> maximum iterations=10000, initial guess is zero
>>> tolerances:  relative=1e-05, absolute=1e-50, divergence=10000
>>> left preconditioning
>>> using PRECONDITIONED norm type for convergence test
>>> PC Object: 1 MPI processes
>>> type: asm
>>>   Additive Schwarz: total subdomain blocks = 1, amount of overlap = 1
>>>   Additive Schwarz: restriction/interpolation type - RESTRICT
>>>   [0] number of local blocks = 1
>>>   Local solve info for each block is in the following KSP and PC objects:
>>>   - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>>>   [0] local block number 0, size = 22905
>>>   KSP Object:    (sub_)     1 MPI processes
>>>     type: preonly
>>>     maximum iterations=10000, initial guess is zero
>>>     tolerances:  relative=1e-05, absolute=1e-50, divergence=10000
>>>     left preconditioning
>>>     using NONE norm type for convergence test
>>>   PC Object:    (sub_)     1 MPI processes
>>>     type: jacobi
>>>     linear system matrix = precond matrix:
>>>     Matrix Object:       1 MPI processes
>>>       type: seqbaij
>>>       rows=22905, cols=22905, bs=5
>>>       total: nonzeros=785525, allocated nonzeros=785525
>>>       total number of mallocs used during MatSetValues calls =0
>>>           block size is 5
>>>   - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>>> linear system matrix followed by preconditioner matrix:
>>> Matrix Object:   1 MPI processes
>>>   type: shell
>>>   rows=22905, cols=22905
>>> Matrix Object:   1 MPI processes
>>>   type: seqbaij
>>>   rows=22905, cols=22905, bs=5
>>>   total: nonzeros=785525, allocated nonzeros=785525
>>>   total number of mallocs used during MatSetValues calls =0
>>>       block size is 5
>>>    WARNING: zero iteration in iterative solver
>>> 
>>> runing with 1 CPU  WITH  the line with red color and the codes converge  
>>> 
>>> runtime options:   -ksp_monitor_true_residual -ksp_view
>>> 0 KSP preconditioned resid norm 6.585278940829e+00 true resid norm 
>>> 9.619278462343e-03 ||r(i)||/||b|| 1.000000000000e+00
>>> 1 KSP preconditioned resid norm 2.566248171026e+00 true resid norm 
>>> 4.841043870812e-03 ||r(i)||/||b|| 5.032647604250e-01
>>> 2 KSP preconditioned resid norm 1.410418402651e+00 true resid norm 
>>> 3.347509391208e-03 ||r(i)||/||b|| 3.480000505561e-01
>>> 3 KSP preconditioned resid norm 9.665409287757e-01 true resid norm 
>>> 2.289877121679e-03 ||r(i)||/||b|| 2.380508195748e-01
>>> 4 KSP preconditioned resid norm 4.469486152454e-01 true resid norm 
>>> 1.283813398084e-03 ||r(i)||/||b|| 1.334625463968e-01
>>> 5 KSP preconditioned resid norm 2.474889829653e-01 true resid norm 
>>> 7.956009139680e-04 ||r(i)||/||b|| 8.270900120862e-02
>>> ............
>>> 24 KSP preconditioned resid norm 9.518780877620e-05 true resid norm 
>>> 6.273993696172e-07 ||r(i)||/||b|| 6.522312167937e-05
>>> 25 KSP preconditioned resid norm 6.837876679998e-05 true resid norm 
>>> 4.612861071815e-07 ||r(i)||/||b|| 4.795433555514e-05
>>> 26 KSP preconditioned resid norm 4.864361942316e-05 true resid norm 
>>> 3.394754589076e-07 ||r(i)||/||b|| 3.529115621682e-05
>>> KSP Object: 1 MPI processes
>>> type: gmres
>>>   GMRES: restart=29, using Classical (unmodified) Gram-Schmidt 
>>> Orthogonalization with no iterative refinement
>>>   GMRES: happy breakdown tolerance 1e-30
>>> maximum iterations=10000, initial guess is zero
>>> tolerances:  relative=1e-05, absolute=1e-50, divergence=10000
>>> left preconditioning
>>> using PRECONDITIONED norm type for convergence test
>>> PC Object: 1 MPI processes
>>> type: asm
>>>   Additive Schwarz: total subdomain blocks = 1, amount of overlap = 1
>>>   Additive Schwarz: restriction/interpolation type - RESTRICT
>>>   [0] number of local blocks = 1
>>>   Local solve info for each block is in the following KSP and PC objects:
>>>   - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>>>   [0] local block number 0, size = 22905
>>>   KSP Object:    (sub_)     1 MPI processes
>>>     type: preonly
>>>     maximum iterations=10000, initial guess is zero
>>>     tolerances:  relative=1e-05, absolute=1e-50, divergence=10000
>>>     left preconditioning
>>>     using NONE norm type for convergence test
>>>   PC Object:    (sub_)     1 MPI processes
>>>     type: jacobi
>>>     linear system matrix = precond matrix:
>>>     Matrix Object:       1 MPI processes
>>>       type: seqbaij
>>>       rows=22905, cols=22905, bs=5
>>>       total: nonzeros=785525, allocated nonzeros=785525
>>>       total number of mallocs used during MatSetValues calls =0
>>>           block size is 5
>>>   - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>>> linear system matrix followed by preconditioner matrix:
>>> Matrix Object:   1 MPI processes
>>>   type: shell
>>>   rows=22905, cols=22905
>>> Matrix Object:   1 MPI processes
>>>   type: seqbaij
>>>   rows=22905, cols=22905, bs=5
>>>   total: nonzeros=785525, allocated nonzeros=785525
>>>   total number of mallocs used during MatSetValues calls =0
>>>       block size is 5
>>>    WARNING: zero iteration in iterative solver
>>> 
>>> 
>>> What would be my error here? Thank you.
>> 

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