<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Jon,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Nope, MAXBLOCKS is set only at setup/compile time. This is because many static arrays are declared based on MAXBLOCKS.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Another option is to use more MPI processes. Strictly speaking, MAXBLOCKS is the maximum number of blocks <i class="">per MPI rank</i>.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Sean</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 28, 2015, at 11:07 AM, Slavin, Jonathan <<a href="mailto:jslavin@cfa.harvard.edu" class="">jslavin@cfa.harvard.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hi,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I'm pretty new to using FLASH. I've run some simulations that started with the sedov setup, though I've modified the Simulation_initBlock.F90 and a few other files. I ran into, what appears to be, a common problem, which is an MPI_Abort caused by a PARAMESH ERROR with the message (in amr.log): <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="">New block location exceeds MAXBLOCKS limit</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> Suggestion: increase MAXBLOCKS or modify refinement criteria.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">My question is, if I just want to increase MAXBLOCKS, can I do that without running setup again? If so, how? I'll note that I've been using flmake, which allows for use of a different directory other than "object". Thanks in advance for any help.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Regards,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Jon</div><div class=""><br class=""></div>-- <br class=""><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">________________________________________________________<br class="">Jonathan D. Slavin Harvard-Smithsonian CfA<br class=""><a href="mailto:jslavin@cfa.harvard.edu" target="_blank" class="">jslavin@cfa.harvard.edu</a> 60 Garden Street, MS 83<br class="">phone: (617) 496-7981 Cambridge, MA 02138-1516<br class="">cell: (781) 363-0035 USA<br class="">________________________________________________________<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div>
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