On Feb 26, 2009, at 7:03 PM, Justin wrote:
> I'm trying to use valgrind to check if we have any memory problems
> in our code when running with parallel processors. However, when I
> run using mpi and valgrind I crashes in various places. For example
> some of the times it will crash with a segfault within
> MPI_Allgatherv despite the fact that all the arguments to the all
> gather on all processors is completely valid. If we don't use
> valgrind the program runs just fine.
> This is on a Debian(lenny) 64 bit machine using the stock mpi
> package. The command used to launch the job is: mpirun -np 8
> valgrind -v --log-file=valgrind.%p executable. Are valgrind and
> openmpi compatible? Is there any special tricks to getting them to
> work together?
We use valgrind internally to track down leaks and other debugging
kinds of things. So yes, it should work.
I do try to keep up with the latest latest latest valgrind, though.
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Jeff Squyres
Cisco Systems
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