On Feb 25, 2010, at 3:56 AM, Amr Hassan wrote:
> Thanks alot for your reply,
>
> I'm using blocking Send and Receive. All the clients are sending data and the server is receive the messages from the clients with MPI_ANY_SOURCE as the sender. Do you think there is a race condition near this pattern?
MPI_ANY_SOURCE can definitely lead to race conditions / messages (and content) from unexpected sources. Try using explicit sources, if possible.
> I searched a lot and used totalview but I couldn't detect such case. I really appreciate if you send me a link or give an example of a possible race condition in that scenario .
You might want to let it run to segv in TV and see exactly where the segv occurs in your code. Is your code processing what it thinks is message A but is really message B? If the content (and therefore the processing of) B is different than A, then assumptions can go badly in your code and Bad Things may happen.
> Also, when I partition the message into smaller parts (send in sequence - all the other clients wait until the send finish) it works fine. is that exclude the race condition?
No. It somewhat suggests that you do have a race condition.
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