[mpich-discuss] CLOG write failure

Anthony Chan chan at mcs.anl.gov
Fri Feb 27 11:56:42 CST 2009


If TMPDIR is not set or it is not read by MPE for some
reasons, /tmp will be used for local storage.
The error message below shows that /tmp_proj is used
for local clog2 file, can you check if you have write
permission to /tmp_proj ?

A.Chan

----- "chong tan" <chong_guan_tan at yahoo.com> wrote:

> we ran our application, after a few hours, MPICH run into file write
> error and aborted. THe error :
>  
> clog_buffer.c:CLOG_Buffer_localIO_write() - 
>         Fail to write to the temporary logfile
> /tmp_proj/clog2_BgxoHx_taskID=000003.
>         Check if the filesystem where the logfile resides is full.
> If so, set environmental variable TMPDIR to a bigger filesystem.
> 
> tried setting TMPDIR to a disk with more than 20G of free space, still
> get the same error. 
> When it failed, the temporary log file was about 360M.
>  
> we ran 'limit' and filesize was set to unlimited.
>  
>  
> any suggestion ?
>  
> thanks
> tan


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