Hello, Running out of memory is not surprising, especially with the bilinear form, if: 1) your mesh is big 2) you're working with higher-order schemes 3) your machine doesn't have much RAM / virtual memory We might be able to tell more if you send us what that strange error is. Regards, Miklos ________________________________ From: firedrake-bounces@imperial.ac.uk <firedrake-bounces@imperial.ac.uk> on behalf of moritz braun <moritz.braun@gmail.com> Sent: 28 July 2016 14:45:31 To: firedrake Subject: [firedrake] out of memory error during assemble Dear Colleagues I have a strange out or memory error when calling assemble on a bilinear form How can that happen in firedrake? Regards Moritz -- Prof M Braun Tel.:27-12-4298006/8027 Physics Department Fax.: 27-12-4293643 University of South Africa (UNISA) moritz.braun@gmail.com<mailto:moritz.braun@gmail.com> P.O. Box 392 0003 UNISA South Africa http://moritz-braun.blogspot.com