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

[Robert Latham]

On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 06:33:23PM +0200, Calin Iaru wrote:
> 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?

What is your error handler set to?  It sounds like the default error
handler, MPI_ERRORS_ARE_FATAL, is kicking in.

http://www.mpi-forum.org/docs/mpi-11-html/node148.html#Node148

==rob

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