Printouts of less than 100 bytes would be unusual...but possible

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 8:15 AM, Jeff Squyres <jsquyres@cisco.com> wrote:
Are you running on machines with OpenFabrics devices (that Open MPI is using)?

Is ompi-ps printing 100 bytes or more?

What does ps show when your program is hung?



On Sep 17, 2010, at 3:13 PM, Matheus Bersot Siqueira Barros wrote:

> Open MPI Version = 1.4.2
> OS = Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and CentOS 5.3
>
> When I run the mpi program below in the terminal, the function fgets hangs.
> How do I know it? I do a printf before and later the call of fgets and only the message "before fgets()" is showed.
>
> However, when I run the same program at Eclipse 3.6 with CDT 7.0.0.201006141710 or using gdb it runs normally.
> If you change the command in the function popen  to another one(for instance: "ls -l"), it will run correctly.
>
> I use the following commands to compile and run the program:
>
> compile : mpicc teste.c -o teste.run
>
> run : mpirun -np 4 ./teste.run
>
>
> Does anyone know why the program behaves like that?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Matheus Bersot.
>
> MPI_PROGRAM:
>
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include "mpi.h"
>
> int main(int argc, char *argv[])
> {
>    int rank, nprocs;
>    FILE * pFile = NULL;
>    char mystring [100];
>
>     MPI_Init(&argc,&argv);
>     MPI_Comm_size(MPI_COMM_WORLD,&nprocs);
>     MPI_Comm_rank(MPI_COMM_WORLD,&rank);
>
>    if(rank == 0)
>    {
>    pFile = popen ("ompi-ps" , "r");
>    if (pFile == NULL) perror ("Error opening file");
>    else {
>      while(!feof(pFile))
>      {
>        printf("before fgets()\n");
>        fgets (mystring , 100 , pFile);
>        printf("after fgets()\n");
>        puts (mystring);
>      }
>      pclose (pFile);
>    }
>   }
>
>   MPI_Finalize();
>    return 0;
> }
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