[FLASH-USERS] FLASH memory usage: Static, Dynamic and Machine Specific

Klaus Weide klaus at flash.uchicago.edu
Wed Aug 10 19:11:20 EDT 2016


On Fri, 5 Aug 2016, Rahul Kashyap wrote:

> More specifically, I'm having problem in using multipole Gravity solver
> which causes memory allocation failure during initialization and also
> evolution. I couldn't get far with my naive knowledge of FLASH's usage of
> '-maxblocks'.

Are you using the newer implementation of the multipole solver, 

  Grid/GridSolvers/Multipole_new

rather than

  Grid/GridSolvers/Multipole ?

(One way to request the newer version is to use the setup shortcut 
 +newMpole .)

The newer version should behave better in terms of memory usage.

Klaus



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