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Well, I actually don't know much about opal_event_loop and/or how it is
intended to work. My guess is that:
(a) your remote orted is acting as the seed and your local process (the
one in Eclipse) is running as a client to that seed - at least, that
was the case last I talked to Nathan
(b) when the seed orted dies, it is the oob in your local client that
actually detects socket closure and decides that - since it is the seed
that has lost contact - the local application must abort.
(c) the errmgr.abort function does exactly what it was supposed to do -
it provides an immediate way of killing the local process.
I'd be a little hesitant to recommend overloading the errmgr.abort
function as you really do want the local processes to die when losing
connection to the seed (at least, until we develop a recovery
capability for the seed orted - which is some ways off), and (given the
way you are running) I'm not sure you can have a different errmgr for
your process while leaving the other one for everyone else.
Probably the best solution for now would be for us to insert a (yet
another) MCA parameter into the errmgr that would (if set) have
errmgr.abort do something other than exit. The question then is: what
would you want it to do?? We need to have it tell the rest of the
system to stop trying to send messages etc - right now, I don't think
the infrastructure exists to do that short of killing orte.
We could try to have errmgr.abort do an orte_finalize - that would kill
the orte system without impacting your host program, I suspect. You
would then have to re-initialize, so we'd have to find some way to let
you know that we had finalized. I can't swear this will work, though -
we might well generate a segfault since this is happening deep down
inside the system. We could try it, though.
Would any of that be of help? Do you have any suggestions on how we
might let you know that we had finalized?
Ralph
Brian Barrett wrote:
On Apr 19, 2006, at 4:15 PM, Greg Watson wrote:
We've just run across a rather tricky issue. We're calling
opal_event_loop() to dispatch orte events to an orted that has been
launched separately. However if the orted dies for some reason (gets
a signal or whatever) then opal_event_loop() is calling exit().
Needless to say, this is not good behavior us. Any suggestions on how
to get around this problem?
Is the orted you are connecting to the "seed" daemon? I think the
only time we should be exiting like that is if the orted was the seed
daemon. I'm not sure what we want to do if that's the case -- it
looks like we're calling errmgr.abort() when badness happens. I
wonder if your application can provide its own errmgr component that
provides an abort that doesn't actually abort? Just some off the
cuff ideas -- Ralph could probably give a better idea of exactly what
is happening...
Brian
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