From: Wolfgang Bangerth <bangerth@math.tamu.edu>
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:00:39 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Document PETSc and threads problem.
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Document PETSc and threads problem.


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diff --git a/deal.II/doc/readme-petsc-trilinos.html b/deal.II/doc/readme-petsc-trilinos.html
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@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
   <title>The deal.II Readme on interfacing to PETSc and Trilinos</title>
   <link href="screen.css" rel="StyleSheet">
   <meta name="author" content="the deal.II authors <authors @ dealii.org>">
-  <meta name="copyright" content="Copyright (C) 2008, 2009 by the deal.II authors">
+  <meta name="copyright" content="Copyright (C) 2008, 2009, 2010 by the deal.II authors">
   <meta name="date" content="$Date: 2008-10-14 05:36:48 -0500 (Tue, 14 Oct 2008) $">
   <meta name="svn_id" content="$Id: readme.html 17202 2008-10-14 10:36:48Z heister $">
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@@ -99,6 +99,14 @@
       this posting to the mailing list</a>. 
       </p>
 
+      <p>
+      There is an additional caveat: PETSc appears not to co-operate well when using
+      threads and some programs crash when deal.II is compiled in its usual mode
+      supporting multithreading. If you see this sort of behavior, we
+      recommend to try disabling multithreading upon configuration of deal.II using the
+      <code>--disable-threads</code> switch to <code>./configure</code>.
+      </p>
+
 
       <h5>Trilinos</h5>