#1448: move PARAMCHECK before WRAGH --------------------+------------------------------------------------------- Reporter: rhaas | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: minor | Milestone: Component: Cactus | Version: development version Keywords: | --------------------+------------------------------------------------------- currently PARAMCHECK runs after WRAGH which means that the lev0 data and grid arrays as well as grid scalars have storage (but the grid is not yet set up properly since basegrid did not yet run).
This means that memory to hold level 0 has been allocated which can be quite large (eg for mulitpach runs where level 0 encompases all multipatch grids). Therefore using cactus_sim -P parfile.par to test parameters and parameter values before submitting a job (which is good practise) can potentially cripple the head node on which one tries this.
Would it be possible to to swap the order (and make sure to call CCTKi_FinaliseParamWarn right after PARAMCHECK) or is do we require that storage exists during PARAMCHECK?
For the code that provides the current ordering, see CallSetup in Carpet/src/Initialise.cc and src/main/CactusDefaultInitialise.c (in the flesh).