Reduce the frequency of load balancer output

From: Ajasja Ljubetič (ajasja.ljubetic_at_gmail.com)
Date: Tue Apr 19 2011 - 09:23:04 CDT

Dear all,

How could I reduce or limit the output of the LDB? An example of what I
would like to get rid of in my log file is shown below.

Also, am I missing something or is the firstLdbStep not documented? (then
probably there is also a lastLdbStep and a ldbPeriod. Is there a LDBoutput
as well?)

I'm running NAMD 2.8b1 for Win32-multicore.

Best regards,
Ajasja Ljubetič

The last position output (seq=660000) takes 0.000 seconds, 29.594 MB of
memory in use
LDB: ============= START OF LOAD BALANCING ============== 506.341
LDB: ============== END OF LOAD BALANCING =============== 506.341
LDB: =============== DONE WITH MIGRATION ================ 506.341
LDB: ============= START OF LOAD BALANCING ============== 506.419
LDB: Largest compute 120 load 0.032000 is 74.6% of average load 0.042875
LDB: Average compute 0.002221 is 5.2% of average load 0.042875
LDB: TIME 506.419 LOAD: AVG 0.0428751 MAX 0.0780001 PROXIES: TOTAL 10 MAXPE
2 MAXPATCH 3 None MEM: 29.5938 MB
LDB: TIME 506.419 LOAD: AVG 0.0428751 MAX 0.0780001 PROXIES: TOTAL 14 MAXPE
3 MAXPATCH 4 RefineTorusLB MEM: 29.5938 MB
LDB: TIME 506.419 LOAD: AVG 0.0428751 MAX 0.0619998 PROXIES: TOTAL 14 MAXPE
3 MAXPATCH 4 RefineTorusLB MEM: 29.5938 MB
LDB: ============== END OF LOAD BALANCING =============== 506.419
LDB: =============== DONE WITH MIGRATION ================ 506.419
LDB: ============= START OF LOAD BALANCING ============== 508.775
LDB: ============== END OF LOAD BALANCING =============== 508.775
LDB: =============== DONE WITH MIGRATION ================ 508.775
LDB: ============= START OF LOAD BALANCING ============== 508.837
LDB: Largest compute 42 load 0.046000 is 82.1% of average load 0.056000
LDB: Average compute 0.002743 is 4.9% of average load 0.056000
LDB: TIME 508.837 LOAD: AVG 0.056 MAX 0.062 PROXIES: TOTAL 10 MAXPE 2
MAXPATCH 3 None MEM: 29.5938 MB
LDB: TIME 508.837 LOAD: AVG 0.056 MAX 0.062 PROXIES: TOTAL 14 MAXPE 3
MAXPATCH 4 RefineTorusLB MEM: 29.5938 MB
LDB: TIME 508.837 LOAD: AVG 0.056 MAX 0.062 PROXIES: TOTAL 14 MAXPE 3
MAXPATCH 4 RefineTorusLB MEM: 29.5938 MB
LDB: ============== END OF LOAD BALANCING =============== 508.837
LDB: =============== DONE WITH MIGRATION ================ 508.837
LDB: ============= START OF LOAD BALANCING ============== 511.131
LDB: ============== END OF LOAD BALANCING =============== 511.131
LDB: =============== DONE WITH MIGRATION ================ 511.131
LDB: ============= START OF LOAD BALANCING ============== 511.193
LDB: Largest compute 89 load 0.031000 is 73.6% of average load 0.042125
LDB: Average compute 0.001885 is 4.5% of average load 0.042125
LDB: TIME 511.193 LOAD: AVG 0.042125 MAX 0.062 PROXIES: TOTAL 10 MAXPE 2
MAXPATCH 3 None MEM: 29.5938 MB
LDB: TIME 511.193 LOAD: AVG 0.042125 MAX 0.062 PROXIES: TOTAL 14 MAXPE 3
MAXPATCH 4 RefineTorusLB MEM: 29.5938 MB
LDB: TIME 511.193 LOAD: AVG 0.042125 MAX 0.0469999 PROXIES: TOTAL 17 MAXPE
4 MAXPATCH 5 RefineTorusLB MEM: 29.5938 MB
LDB: ============== END OF LOAD BALANCING =============== 511.193
LDB: =============== DONE WITH MIGRATION ================ 511.193

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