[MPICH] one shot jobs in mpich2?

Alexander Spiegel spiegel at rz.rwth-aachen.de
Fri Jun 17 11:09:39 CDT 2005


Hi,

Reuti wrote:
> I didn't found a way to integrate the mpd method into SGE, as it creates 
> many new processgroups, which prevents a proper shutdown of a job in 
> case that you issue a qdel for it.

What's about removing the lines with 'setpgrp' in mpd.py and mpdman.py 
scpripts? Or introducing an environment variable to control the creation
of new process groups?

I made some small tests and it seems to work. The new processgroups were 
no more created by mpd.

with regards
Alex Spiegel





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