[FLASH-USERS] disable check pointing

[Brock Palen]

Ok I will try setting them all to -1,

The run just crashed trying to write checkpoint_002
It segfault'ed when the file size was 2.2 GB.  We were using HDF5  
serial, on luster.

Thanks,

Brock Palen
Center for Advanced Computing
brockp at umich.edu
(734)936-1985


On Jan 18, 2008, at 1:17 PM, John ZuHone wrote:

> Brock,
>
> 	I think that if you want no checkpoints at all you should set  
> trstrt < 0, and make sure that nrstrt < 0 (integer) and zrstrt < 0  
> as well.
>
> Best,
>
> John ZuHone
>
> On Jan 18, 2008, at 8:56 AM, Brock Palen wrote:
>
>> For parallel runs even if I set
>>
>> trstrt=0
>>
>> two checkpoint files were written.
>> [ 01-17-2008  23:51.27 ] message: [CHECKPOINT_WR] NOTE: will  
>> send           10     blocks per message.
>> [ 01-17-2008  23:51.29 ] file_wr_open: type=checkpoint  
>> name=Ni_Tem_hdf5_chk_0000
>> [ 01-17-2008  23:52.30 ] file_wr_close: type=checkpoint  
>> name=Ni_Tem_hdf5_chk_0000 blocks=5449
>> [ 01-17-2008  23:52.32 ] file_wr_open: type=plotfile  
>> name=Ni_Tem_hdf5_plt_cnt_0000
>> [ 01-17-2008  23:52.36 ] file_wr_close: type=plotfile  
>> name=Ni_Tem_hdf5_plt_cnt_0000
>> [ 01-17-2008  23:52.36 ] [FLASH]: Enter evolution loop...
>> [ 01-17-2008  23:52.36 ] step: n=1 t=0.000000E+00 dt=1.000000E-16
>> [ 01-17-2008  23:59.26 ] file_wr_open: type=checkpoint  
>> name=Ni_Tem_hdf5_chk_0001
>> [ 01-18-2008  00:00.13 ] file_wr_close: type=checkpoint  
>> name=Ni_Tem_hdf5_chk_0001 blocks=5449
>>
>> No other checkpoint files have been written so far,  though  
>> several plot files have been written.  Is this expected behavior?
>>
>> Flash2.5 + pgi +openmpi-1.2.3
>> hdf5/serial
>>
>>
>> Brock Palen
>> Center for Advanced Computing
>> brockp at umich.edu
>> (734)936-1985
>>
>
>
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