diff --git a/examples/ir-ilu-preconditioned-solver/CMakeLists.txt b/examples/ir-ilu-preconditioned-solver/CMakeLists.txt
index 78da3312512..dd77e163e59 100644
--- a/examples/ir-ilu-preconditioned-solver/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/examples/ir-ilu-preconditioned-solver/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -2,5 +2,3 @@ add_executable(ir-ilu-preconditioned-solver ir-ilu-preconditioned-solver.cpp)
 target_link_libraries(ir-ilu-preconditioned-solver ginkgo)
 target_include_directories(ir-ilu-preconditioned-solver PRIVATE ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR})
 configure_file(data/A.mtx data/A.mtx COPYONLY)
-configure_file(data/b.mtx data/b.mtx COPYONLY)
-configure_file(data/x0.mtx data/x0.mtx COPYONLY)
diff --git a/examples/ir-ilu-preconditioned-solver/data/b.mtx b/examples/ir-ilu-preconditioned-solver/data/b.mtx
deleted file mode 100644
index 05d92ecc6f7..00000000000
--- a/examples/ir-ilu-preconditioned-solver/data/b.mtx
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-%%MatrixMarket matrix array real general
-19 1
-1
-1
-1
-1
-1
-1
-1
-1
-1
-1
-1
-1
-1
-1
-1
-1
-1
-1
-1
diff --git a/examples/ir-ilu-preconditioned-solver/data/x0.mtx b/examples/ir-ilu-preconditioned-solver/data/x0.mtx
deleted file mode 100644
index 91d470cdbcd..00000000000
--- a/examples/ir-ilu-preconditioned-solver/data/x0.mtx
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-%%MatrixMarket matrix array real general
-19 1
-0
-0
-0
-0
-0
-0
-0
-0
-0
-0
-0
-0
-0
-0
-0
-0
-0
-0
-0
diff --git a/examples/ir-ilu-preconditioned-solver/doc/results.dox b/examples/ir-ilu-preconditioned-solver/doc/results.dox
index 5de3e3b01f5..eaaaa5758cd 100644
--- a/examples/ir-ilu-preconditioned-solver/doc/results.dox
+++ b/examples/ir-ilu-preconditioned-solver/doc/results.dox
@@ -26,11 +26,11 @@ Solution (x):
 0.0121141
 0.0123025
 GMRES iteration count:     7
-GMRES execution time [ms]: 5.49966
+GMRES execution time [ms]: 2.64993
 Residual norm sqrt(r^T r):
 %%MatrixMarket matrix array real general
 1 1
-7.83607e-13
+2.23805e-10
 
 @endcode
 
diff --git a/examples/ir-ilu-preconditioned-solver/ir-ilu-preconditioned-solver.cpp b/examples/ir-ilu-preconditioned-solver/ir-ilu-preconditioned-solver.cpp
index e688e8573d9..14cadf8c912 100644
--- a/examples/ir-ilu-preconditioned-solver/ir-ilu-preconditioned-solver.cpp
+++ b/examples/ir-ilu-preconditioned-solver/ir-ilu-preconditioned-solver.cpp
@@ -76,8 +76,16 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 
     // Read data
     auto A = gko::share(gko::read<mtx>(std::ifstream("data/A.mtx"), exec));
-    auto b = gko::read<vec>(std::ifstream("data/b.mtx"), exec);
-    auto x = gko::read<vec>(std::ifstream("data/x0.mtx"), exec);
+    // Create RHS and initial guess as 1
+    gko::size_type num_rows = A->get_size()[0];
+    auto host_x = vec::create(exec->get_master(), gko::dim<2>(num_rows, 1));
+    for (gko::size_type i = 0; i < num_rows; i++) {
+        host_x->at(i, 0) = 1.;
+    }
+    auto x = vec::create(exec);
+    auto b = vec::create(exec);
+    x->copy_from(host_x.get());
+    b->copy_from(host_x.get());
     auto clone_x = vec::create(exec);
     clone_x->copy_from(lend(x));