No output to standard out of long running cases because of message limit for informational messages

[blattms]

I was quite surprised when running a case that out like this on standard out stop after some time:

Restart file written for report step  XXX/YYY, date = DD-MMM-20XX 00:00:00
 Newton its= 6, linearizations= 7 (1.1sec), linear its= 18 (1.8sec)
...
Starting time step 8, stepsize 0.634895 days, at day xxxx.x/yyyyyy, date = 11-XXX-20XX
Starting time step 9, stepsize 0.634895 days, at day xxxx.x/yyyyyy, date = 11-XXX-20XX

This is the last output (even the summary at the end is misssing) for a case that is running much longer. I know that this because of the limit for INFO messages,.

I think this quite unfortunate, because there is no way to tell whether the simulation is still running unless one looks and monitors the PRT file. At least on clusters this might not always be possible.

I was actually about to kill the run but thankfully got the idea to look at the PRT file before.

Is this behavior really what we intended?

[atgeirr]

The limit was set somewhat arbitrary, maybe influenced by similar limits in other simulators, but I would not be opposed to setting no limit for info(), or just increasing it 10x.