[MPICH] understanding the signal numbers of the crashes

[Andrea Di Blas]

and if you want an easy way of playing with them in your programs, you can
just use gdb: try "info signals". or even better, in ddd go to
status->signals for a list, a brief explanation, and deciding what to do
with them.


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Andrea  Di Blas                     UCSC
                   School of Engineering
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On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Anthony Chan wrote:


>
> On linux, the "signal" manpage contains a list of standard signals and
> their meanings or you can google the phase "unix signal number".
>
> A.Chan
>
> On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
>
> > Hi all
> >
> >     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.
> >
> > exit status of rank 3: killed by signal 9
> >
> > From previous discussions on this list, I know that Signal 11 means
> > segmentation fault. But what about signal 9? What about other signal
> > numbers?
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > thanks
> > raju
> >
> >
>