[FLASH-USERS] disable check pointing

[John ZuHone]

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
>