Re: --mx-kill

Chris Samuel <[email protected]> Tue, 19 Sep 2006 18:14:26 +1000
Newsgroups gmane.network.myrinet.general
Organization VPAC - Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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On Thursday 14 September 2006 09:34, george wm turner wrote:

> =A0 =A0 =A0As SysAdmins, we're thinking of making --mx-kill 60 the
> default on our mpirun commands to force clean up of orphans
> left behind when user's codes error out.

If you're using Torque then have you considered using Pete Wyckoff's excell=
ent=20
mpiexec instead ?

That will talk directly to the pbs_mom's to get its information and to star=
t=20
the processes using the TM interface. Much neater all round, PBS gets to=20
monitor the processes CPU times more accurately and it is directly aware of=
=20
processes dieing.

cheers,
Chris
=2D-=20
 Christopher Samuel - (03)9925 4751 - VPAC Deputy Systems Manager
 Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing http://www.vpac.org/
 Bldg 91, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton South, VIC 3053, Australia


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