[FLASH-USERS] too many refinement iterations

Klaus Weide klaus at flash.uchicago.edu
Tue Sep 24 17:04:48 EDT 2019


On Tue, 24 Sep 2019, Slavin, Jonathan wrote:

> It looks like the total blocks is approaching the maximum allocated via
> maxblocks, but I don't think the used memory is approaching the available
> memory. My machine has 32 GB of memory. If I'm understanding the
> calculation in the user's guide correctly the total memory requirement is
> 14 (NUNK_VARS) * ( 8 (nguard) + 16 (nxb)) * ( 8 + 16 (nyb))* 4000
> (maxblocks) = 32 MB
> is that right? 

You forgot a factor of 8 (bytes per real number).

Klaus



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