Debugging

This page provides strategies for investigating errors encountered while using GCHP.

Table of contents

• Debugging

  • Configure errors

  • Build-time errors

  • Run-time errors

    • Recompile with debug flags

    • Enable maximum print output

    • Inspecting memory

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Configure errors

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Build-time errors

Coming soon

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Run-time errors

Recompile with debug flags

Recompile using debug flags by setting -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug during the configure step. See the section of the user guide on compiling GCHP for more guidance on how to do this. Once you rebuild there may be more information in the logs when you run again.

Enable maximum print output

Besides compiling with CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug, there are a few run-time settings you can configure to boost your chance of successful debugging. All of them involve sending additional print statements to the log files.

1. Set Turn on debug printout? in geoschem_config.yml to T to turn on extra GEOS-Chem print statements in the main log file.

2. Set the Verbose and Warnings settings in HEMCO_Config.rc to maximum values of 3 to send the maximum number of prints to HEMCO.log.

3. Set CAP.EXTDATA and MAPL options root_level in logging.yml to DEBUG to send root thread MAPL prints to allPEs.log.

4. Set CAP.EXTDATA and MAPL option level in logging.yml to DEBUG to send all thread MAPL ExtData (input) prints to allPEs.log.

None of these options require recompiling. Be aware that all of them will slow down your simulation. Be sure to set them back to the default values after you are finished debugging.

Inspecting memory

Memory statistics are printed to the GCHP log each model timestep by default. This includes percentage of memory committed, percentage of memory used, total used memory (MB), and total swap memory (MB). This information is always printed and is not configurable from the run directory. However, additional memory prints may be enabled by changing the value set for variable MEMORY_DEBUG_LEVEL in run directory file GCHP.rc. Setting this to a value greater than zero will print out total used memory and swap memory before and after run methods for gridded components GCHPctmEnv, FV3 advection, and GEOS-Chem. Within GEOS-Chem, total and swap memory will also be printed before and after subroutines to run GEOS-Chem, perform chemistry, and apply emissions. For more information about inspecting memory see the output files section of this user guide.