On Nov 3, 2011, at 2:55 PM, Blosch, Edwin L wrote:
> I might be missing something here. Is there a side-effect or performance loss if you don't use the sm btl? Why would it exist if there is a wholly equivalent alternative? What happens to traffic that is intended for another process on the same node?
There is a definite performance impact, and we wouldn't recommend doing what Eugene suggested if you care about performance.
The correct solution here is get your sys admin to make /tmp local. Making /tmp NFS mounted across multiple nodes is a major "faux pas" in the Linux world - it should never be done, for the reasons stated by Jeff.
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> Thanks
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> From: users-bounces_at_[hidden] [mailto:users-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Eugene Loh
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> Subject: Re: [OMPI users] EXTERNAL: Re: How to set up state-less node /tmp for OpenMPI usage
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> Right. Actually "--mca btl ^sm". (Was missing "btl".)
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> On 11/3/2011 11:19 AM, Blosch, Edwin L wrote:
>> I don't tell OpenMPI what BTLs to use. The default uses sm and puts a session file on /tmp, which is NFS-mounted and thus not a good choice.
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>> Are you suggesting something like --mca ^sm?
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>> -----Original Message-----
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>> Subject: Re: [OMPI users] EXTERNAL: Re: How to set up state-less node /tmp for OpenMPI usage
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>> I've not been following closely. Why must one use shared-memory
>> communications? How about using other BTLs in a "loopback" fashion?
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