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> Actually, I found that the best preconditioner for a pccgls
> solver on some of my problems was indeed an incomplete
> cholesky.
> 
> John

Hi John,

was this also for structural mechanics?
For thermal problems it works great (though they also have less dof), but for structural I can't seem to get them working right.