#447: simfactory 1.0 always uses -L 3 -----------------------------------------------+---------------------------- Reporter: alexander.beck-ratzka@… | Owner: eschnett Type: defect | Status: new Priority: major | Milestone: Component: SimFactory | Version: Resolution: | Keywords: -----------------------------------------------+----------------------------

Comment (by hinder):

According to the documentation (http://cactuscode.org/documentation/referencemanual/ReferenceManualch2.html#...), the warning levels are:

#define CCTK_WARN_ABORT 0 /* abort the Cactus run */ #define CCTK_WARN_ALERT 1 /* the results of this run will probably */ /* be wrong, but this isn’t quite certain, */ /* so we’re not going to abort the run */ #define CCTK_WARN_COMPLAIN 2 /* the user should know about this, but */ /* the results of this run are probably ok */ #define CCTK_WARN_PICKY 3 /* this is for small problems that can */ /* probably be ignored, but that careful */ /* people may want to know about */ #define CCTK_WARN_DEBUG 4 /* these messages are probably useful */ /* only for debugging purposes */

so level 3 is actually "PICKY", not "DEBUG". This means that unless something is actually wrong, or might be wrong, the warning should not be issued (in contrast to DEBUG). Usually warnings are there for a reason, and hiding them could lead to hard-to-diagnose problems. If all the warning calls in the code respected these definitions (unlikely), then possible sensible defaults for the log level would be 2 or 3. Since scientists are supposed to be "careful people", we should all be using 3, which is the current default in SimFactory :)

The interpretation of the command line arguments is given here:

http://cactuscode.org/documentation/usersguide/UsersGuidech7.html#x10-36000B...

Actually, I would be in favour of changing the Cactus default from 0 to 3. Then we could remove the "-L 3" in simfactory as the Cactus default would be suitable. What do people think of this option?

#447: Cactus' default warning level should be higher than 0. -----------------------------------------------+---------------------------- Reporter: alexander.beck-ratzka@… | Owner: eschnett Type: defect | Status: new Priority: major | Milestone: Component: SimFactory | Version: Resolution: | Keywords: -----------------------------------------------+----------------------------

Comment (by knarf):

I agree that the Cactus default could be changed to at least 2, possibly even 3. Right now I tend towards 2, but that's not a strong opinion.