Randolph,
after reading this:
On 08/28/12 04:26, Randolph Pullen wrote:
> - On occasions it seems to stall indefinately, waiting on a single receive.
... I would make a blind guess: are you aware about IB card parameters for
registered memory?
http://www.open-mpi.org/faq/?category=openfabrics#ib-low-reg-mem
"Waiting forever" for a single operation is one of symptoms of the problem
especially in 1.5.3.
best,
Paul
P.S. the lower performance with 'big' chinks is known phenomenon, cf.
http://www.scl.ameslab.gov/netpipe/
(image on bottom of the page). But the chunk size of 64k is fairly small
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