Jonathan Dursi wrote:
> Continuing the conversation with myself:
Sorry to interrupt... :^)
Okay, I managed to reproduce the hang. I'll try to look at this.
>
> Google pointed me to Trac ticket #1944, which spoke of deadlocks in
> looped collective operations; there is no collective operation
> anywhere in this sample code, but trying one of the suggested
> workarounds/clues: that is, setting btl_sm_num_fifos to at least
> (np-1) seems to make things work quite reliably, for both OpenMPI
> 1.3.2 and 1.3.3; that is, while this
>
> mpirun -np 6 -mca btl sm,self ./diffusion-mpi
>
> invariably hangs (at random-seeming numbers of iterations) with
> OpenMPI 1.3.2 and sometimes hangs (maybe 10% of the time, again
> seemingly randomly) with 1.3.3,
>
> mpirun -np 6 -mca btl tcp,self ./diffusion-mpi
>
> or
>
> mpirun -np 6 -mca btl_sm_num_fifos 5 -mca btl sm,self ./diffusion-mpi
>
> always succeeds, with (as one might guess) the second being much
> faster...
>
> Jonathan
>
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