[mpich-discuss] kill process => terminate job?

[Gib Bogle]

Also on Windows.

Gib

Quoting chong tan <chong_guan_tan at yahoo.com>:

> I have seen this on Linux.  Never on SunOS.  I take as 'life with MPICH2'.
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> tan
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> --- On Sun, 9/14/08, Calin Iaru <calin at dolphinics.com> wrote:
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> From: Calin Iaru <calin at dolphinics.com>
> Subject: [mpich-discuss] kill process => terminate job?
> To: mpich-discuss at mcs.anl.gov
> Date: Sunday, September 14, 2008, 9:33 AM
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> When I run programs under Windows or Linux, I can see that an abrupt  
>  termination of one process may lead to the whole job being   
> terminated by the process managers. This is not always the case, as   
> sometimes orphaned processes are still running. Has anyone seen this  
>  with mpd or smpd on Windows? Could it be that the behaviour in such  
>  cases is not strong, meaning that it is up to the process manager  
> to  decide what to do next? If so, then what are the criterias for   
> terminating a job?
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