On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 15:35, Haren, S.W. van (Steven) <vanharen@nrg.eu> wrote:

Dear all,

I try to configure Petsc to use HDF5.

During the HDF5 compilation stage the memory use increases untill the computer basically stalls and almost all memory is used. After 2500s the compilation is stopped because of a runaway process.

Check configure.log and/or attach a debugger to find out where it got stuck. At least use "top" to find out which process is taking all the time and memory.