is mpi wisdom cumulative?

[chichilalescu]

I'm trying to save MPI wisdom, and I'm getting strange behavior.
Since my understanding is that fftw wisdom accumulates, I figured the easiest thing I can do is create an empty file, then read wisdom from there, run my code, save wisdom in the file, and then the next time I would run my code, it would no longer spend any time with plans.
However, that's not what happens.

In my tests I am using an MPI code on my 8 core machine, and I am doing an inverse FFT for 3 interleaved 256x256x256 arrays.
After the first run with "FFTW_MEASURE" the wisdom file is big (64 lines), and it takes ~100 seconds for this first run.
Second run takes 5 seconds, and the wisdom file is smaller (18 lines).
Third run takes ~100 seconds, and the wisdom file remains the same (I guess, I didn't check all the codes individually).
All subsequent runs are of ~100 seconds.

If I change my code so that it no longer overwrites the wisdom file after the first run, all subsequent runs are fast, so I can work around this issue.
Also, for this particular size of the transform, FFTW_ESTIMATE seems to be just as fast as FFTW_MEASURE (if I don't overwrite the wisdom file), so it's not a big deal anyway.
However, when I'll be running my production jobs, the transforms will be a lot bigger, and I'd like to understand what's happening.

By the way, I'm using the recommended way of saving the files from http://www.fftw.org/doc/FFTW-MPI-Wisdom.html (more on that in the next issue though).

[chichilalescu]

PS: I think I'm using FFTW 3.3.4, but the contents of the wisdom file start with "fftw-3.3.3". Is it possible I messed up my installation? I just installed it with "configure/make/make install", and I can only find one instance of each library file, so my guess is that the string is hardcoded somewhere and was not updated.