# PCFactorSetUseDropTolerance

The preconditioner will use an ILU based on a drop tolerance.

### Synopsis

    #include "petscpc.h"
    PetscErrorCode PETSCKSP_DLLEXPORT PCFactorSetUseDropTolerance(PC pc,PetscReal dt,PetscReal dtcol,PetscInt maxrowcount)

Collective on PC

### Input Parameters

| pc | - the preconditioner context
| dt | - the drop tolerance, try from 1.e-10 to .1
| dtcol | - tolerance for column pivot, good values [0.1 to 0.01]
| maxrowcount | - the max number of nonzeros allowed in a row, best value depends on the number of nonzeros in row of original matrix

### Options Database Key

-pc_factor_use_drop_tolerance <dt,dtcol,maxrowcount> -Sets drop tolerance

### Notes

This uses the iludt() code of Saad's SPARSKIT package

There are NO default values for the 3 parameters, you must set them with reasonable values for your matrix. We don't know how to compute reasonable values.

### Keywords

PC, levels, reordering, factorization, incomplete, ILU

Level:intermediate
Location:src/ksp/pc/impls/factor/ilu/ilu.c
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