<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">the test works with sock. So, it is likely to be some bug in ssm.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">----- Original Message ----<BR>From: William Gropp <gropp@mcs.anl.gov><BR>To: chong tan <chong_guan_tan@yahoo.com><BR>Cc: mpich-discuss@mcs.anl.gov<BR>Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 6:37:19 PM<BR>Subject: Re: [MPICH] MPICH2 1.05 MPI_Send & MPI_Recv dropping packages randomly<BR><BR>Can you send us the test case? Does it fail with the ch3:sock device? Are the messages short or long?
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<DIV>On Jan 17, 2007, at 7:06 PM, chong tan wrote:</DIV><BR class=Apple-interchange-newline>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 16px; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman"><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 16px; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman">setenv CFLAGS "-m32 -O2"</SPAN><BR style="FONT-SIZE: 16px; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman"><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 16px; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman">setenv CC gcc</SPAN><BR style="FONT-SIZE: 16px; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman"><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 16px; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman">./configure -prefix=/u/cgtan/my_release_dir --with-device=ch3:ssm --enable-fast |& tee configure.log</SPAN><BR style="FONT-SIZE: 16px; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman"></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 16px; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman"><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 16px; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman">the test programs run 5 processes, one master and 4 slaves. Master always recv from slaves and them send to all of them. Randomly, an MPI_Send performed in the master will complete, but the corresponidng MPI_Recv in the targeted slave would not complete, and the who thing hangs. </SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 16px; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman"><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 16px; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman">I have a debugging mechanism that attachs a sequence id to all packages sent. The packages are dumped before and after sent, and recv. a message is also dumped on the the pending recv. The sequence id traced OK all the way to the lost package.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 16px; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman"><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 16px; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman">The same code work fine with 2.1.04p1. it has been tested on test cases longer than 100 million send/recv sequences. any suggestions ?</SPAN></DIV>
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