[MPICH] understanding the signal numbers of the crashes

[Kamaraju Kusumanchi]

On 6/21/07, Sam Miller <samm at sammiller.org> wrote:
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> On Jun 21, 2007, at 8:38 PM, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
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> Hi all
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>    Is there any book/document/webpage which explains what different
> signal numbers mean? For example, when executing an MPI program I am
> getting an error as follows.
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> exit status of rank 3: killed by signal 9
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> From previous discussions on this list, I know that Signal 11 means
> segmentation fault. But what about signal 9? What about other signal
> numbers?
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> I googled and got no hits. I also looked in the "mpich2 User's guide"
> version 1.0.5 which does not explain the signal codes. Any other
> pointers/suggestions?
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> thanks
> raju
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> signal 9 is SIGKILL, a signal you cannot ignore.
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> info kill or kill -l should provide you with a list of all the signals.
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> Regards,
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Thank you very much for the reply. It helped.

raju