On Aug 29, 2011, at 4:22 PM, Eugene Loh wrote: > It seems to me the FAQ item > http://www.open-mpi.org/faq/?category=large-clusters#fd-limits needs > updating. I'm willing to give this a try, but need some help first. (I'm > even more willing to let someone else do all this, but I'm not holding my > breath.) > > For example, the text sounds dated -- e.g., with references to v1.2. Is the > "road map" discussion still current?
No - we should remove that stuff, as well as discussion of the 1.2 issues as we no longer support code that old. > > Is the estimate of the needed number of descriptors our current best guess? No - it's incorrect. > > The FAQ is missing discussion of how to increase the limit. For something > like "limit/ulimit/unlimit", where should this be done? In .login? I assume > it's not sufficient simply to set this in the shell where mpirun is executed, > assuming processes will also be launched on remote nodes. Yes? > > (And, clearly, the FAQ item is missing discussion of the MCA parameter > opal_set_max_sys_limits.) I'll take a first cut at it - may leave the discussion of how to increase the limits to you. > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list > de...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/devel
