[MPICH] question on numesis

Darius Buntinas buntinas at mcs.anl.gov
Wed Feb 7 22:01:17 CST 2007


Yes, currently Nemesis only does busy waiting.  This is done for 
performance reasons.  In Nemesis, a process will yield the processor after 
polling unsuccessfuly for a while.  Eventually, we may have an option to 
block while waiting for messages.

-d

On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, chong tan wrote:

> I am using nemesis with 1.05.  I notice that all processes launched by mpiexec are active even when they are waiting for data from another process.  I did not notice this behavior when using ssm in 1.04.

any idea ? I am running RHEL 4.

thansk



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