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[Andy Ray Terrel <aterrel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

So that is a message to the user, I want to check the object in the
code.  Right now that newton_converged variable is set by a private
function.  Thus if I am making a continuation loop and I want to know
if my solver failed to converge, I can only check the iteration count.

-- Andy

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Garth N. Wells <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Andy Ray Terrel wrote:
>>
>> Since you guys are releasing soon, could you add a flag in the newton
>> solver that says if it actually converged.
>
> We have this in the code:
>
>  if (newton_converged)
>    info("Newton solver finished in %d iterations and %d linear solver
> iterations.",
>            newton_iteration, krylov_iterations);
>  else
>    warning("Newton solver did not converge.");
>
>
> Perhaps you turned off logging to suppress the assembler messages?
>
> Garth
>
> Right now the only thing I
>>
>> can do is check to see if it took the max iters but you know that last
>> iter might have actually converged.
>>
>> -- Andy
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