[mesa-users] hydro_failed_to_converge

[Bill Paxton]

Hi Jamie,

On Oct 13, 2013, at 8:40 AM, Jaime Villaseñor wrote:

>                                             num_backups          11
>                                      max_number_backups          10
> 
>  stopping because of convergence problems num_backups > max_number_backups

Starting from a test case inlist is a good idea.  
But the tests include checks for number or retries and number of backups that you may not want.

Here are the lines from the inlist

      ! check for retries and backups as part of test_suite
      ! you can/should delete this for use outside of test_suite
         max_number_backups = 10
         max_number_retries = 80


When the test case is running properly, it reaches the desired stopping point without many backups, so something has gone very bad in the test if it reaches 10 backups.  Rather than let it keeping, we make the test terminate at that point.

But if you are going to do a longer run, it isn't unreasonable that it could require more backups or retries.    Your run is going much farther than the test case.   Perhaps it isn't crazy that it has done that many backups.  What happens if you remove the max_number_backups line from your inlist?    

-B



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