Dear all, I am trying to optimize the nonlinear solvers in a code of mine, but I am having a hard time at interpreting the profiling data from the SNES. In particular, if I run with -snesCorr_snes_lag_jacobian 5 -snesCorr_snes_linesearch_monitor -snesCorr_snes_monitor -snesCorr_snes_linesearch_type basic -snesCorr_snes_view I get, for all timesteps an output like 0 SNES Function norm 2.204257292307e+00 1 SNES Function norm 5.156376709750e-03 2 SNES Function norm 9.399026338316e-05 3 SNES Function norm 1.700505246874e-06 4 SNES Function norm 2.938127043559e-08 SNES Object: snesCorr (snesCorr_) 1 MPI process type: newtonls maximum iterations=50, maximum function evaluations=10000 tolerances: relative=1e-08, absolute=1e-50, solution=1e-08 total number of linear solver iterations=4 total number of function evaluations=5 norm schedule ALWAYS Jacobian is rebuilt every 5 SNES iterations SNESLineSearch Object: (snesCorr_) 1 MPI process type: basic maxstep=1.000000e+08, minlambda=1.000000e-12 tolerances: relative=1.000000e-08, absolute=1.000000e-15, lambda=1.000000e-08 maximum iterations=40 KSP Object: (snesCorr_) 1 MPI process type: gmres restart=30, using Classical (unmodified) Gram-Schmidt Orthogonalization with no iterative refinement happy breakdown tolerance 1e-30 maximum iterations=10000, initial guess is zero tolerances: relative=1e-05, absolute=1e-50, divergence=10000. left preconditioning using PRECONDITIONED norm type for convergence test PC Object: (snesCorr_) 1 MPI process type: ilu out-of-place factorization 0 levels of fill tolerance for zero pivot 2.22045e-14 matrix ordering: natural factor fill ratio given 1., needed 1. Factored matrix follows: Mat Object: (snesCorr_) 1 MPI process type: seqaij rows=1200, cols=1200 package used to perform factorization: petsc total: nonzeros=17946, allocated nonzeros=17946 using I-node routines: found 400 nodes, limit used is 5 linear system matrix = precond matrix: Mat Object: 1 MPI process type: seqaij rows=1200, cols=1200 total: nonzeros=17946, allocated nonzeros=17946 total number of mallocs used during MatSetValues calls=0 using I-node routines: found 400 nodes, limit used is 5 I guess that this means that no linesearch is performed and the full Newton step is always performed (I did not report the full output, but all timesteps are alike). Also, with the default (bt) LineSearch, the total CPU time does not change, which seems in line with this. However, I'd have expected that the time spent in SNESLineSearch would be negligible, but the flamegraph is showing that about 38% of the time spent by SNESSolve is actually spent in SNESLineSearch. Furthermore, SNESLineSearch seems to cause more SNESFunction evaluations (in terms of CPU time) than the SNESSolve itself. The flamegraph is attached. Could some expert help me in understanding these data? Is the LineSearch actually performing the newton step? Given that the full step is always taken, can the SNESFunction evaluations from the LineSearch be skipped? Thanks a lot! Matteo
