[mpich-discuss] HYDRA and kill process

[Pavan Balaji]

Hi Torquil,

I tried many different combinations for this with different numbers of 
nodes, but it always works correctly for me.

Just so we are not chasing some bug that has already gotten fixed, can 
you try the latest nightly snapshot of Hydra?

http://www.mcs.anl.gov/research/projects/mpich2/downloads/tarballs/nightly/hydra/

Thanks,

  -- Pavan

On 03/26/2011 02:23 AM, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote:
> On 25/03/11 15:27, Pavan Balaji wrote:
>> 3. Did you try running one of the MPICH2 example programs (./examples/cpi)?
>
> The 'cpi' example does not have the same problem.
>
> I think I've determined the cause. There is something I forgot to mention in my
> original description. I was running
>
> mpirun -n 8 time nice -n 19 prog.exe
>
> in an effort to get low priority processes. Removing 'time' and 'nice' fixes the
> problem, i.e. using
>
> mpirun -n 8 prog.exe
>
> The 'time' command I can live without. Now I have to figure out how to set a low
> process priority without using 'nice'.
>
> Thanks for all your help!
>
> Best regards
> Torquil Sørensen

-- 
Pavan Balaji
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~balaji