[mpich-discuss] mpiexec -maxtime

[Rajeev Thakur]

I think the mpiexec manpage contains a general reference of what mpiexec
should have as defined in MPI standard. "mpiexec -help" provides a more
specific info for mpiexec offered by a given process manager. 

If you want mpiexec to timeout, one method that works with all process
managers in MPICH2 is to set the environment variable MPIEXEC_TIMEOUT to the
time in seconds.

Rajeev


> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:mpich-discuss-bounces at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of 
> Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
> Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 7:32 AM
> To: mpich-discuss at mcs.anl.gov
> Subject: [mpich-discuss] mpiexec -maxtime
> 
> Hi!
> 
> The manpage of mpiexec lists -maxtime as a possible option, 
> but mpiexec 
> --help doesn't. Does it only mean that I have not compiled 
> MPICH2 with 
> support for -maxtime? Is it related to the 
> --enable-timer-type configure 
> option?
> 
> (MPICH2 1.0.8 on Linux)
> 
> Best regards
> Torquil Sørensen
>