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From: Josh Hursey (jjhursey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-04-20 08:06:26


This is to be expected. BLCR saves the entire process [individual
rank] image to disk, so if your process is large, and allocates a
significant amount of memory then the context files will be large.
Unfortunately there is not way to make the BLCR context files smaller
at the moment.

-- Josh

On Apr 20, 2006, at 1:53 AM, Mars Lenjoy wrote:

> i'm using lamcheckpoint.
> for the parallel mesh program, checkpoint context file is really
> big, terrible, displayed followed, and take it so long time. does
> it save all the date in the memory?
>
> -r-------- 419411063 Apr 19 23:08 context.21494-n0-21727
> -r-------- 465662631 Apr 19 23:08 context.21494-n0-21728
> -r-------- 456671359 Apr 19 23:06 context.21494-n1-21921
> -r-------- 480885959 Apr 19 23:06 context.21494-n2-14486
> -r-------- 131587 Apr 19 23:08 context.mpirun.21494
>
>
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