Hah!  I just saw your ticket about how --with-hwloc=/path/to/install is broken 
in 1.5.5.  So -- let me go look in to that...


On Mar 2, 2012, at 8:58 AM, Jeffrey Squyres wrote:

> Ok.  Good that there's no oversubscription bug, at least.  :-)
> 
> Did you see my off-list mail to you yesterday about building with an external 
> copy of hwloc 1.4 to see if that helps?
> 
> 
> On Mar 2, 2012, at 8:26 AM, Matthias Jurenz wrote:
> 
>> To exclude a possible bug within the LSF component, I rebuilt Open MPI 
>> without 
>> support for LSF (--without-lsf).
>> 
>> -> It makes no difference - the latency is still bad: ~1.1us.
>> 
>> Matthias
>> 
>> On Friday 02 March 2012 13:50:13 Matthias Jurenz wrote:
>>> SORRY, it was obviously a big mistake by me. :-(
>>> 
>>> Open MPI 1.5.5 was built with LSF support, so when starting an LSF job it's
>>> necessary to request at least the number of tasks/cores as used for the
>>> subsequent mpirun command. That was not the case - I forgot the bsub's '-n'
>>> option to specify the number of task, so only *one* task/core was
>>> requested.
>>> 
>>> Open MPI 1.4.5 was built *without* LSF support, so the supposed misbehavior
>>> could not happen with it.
>>> 
>>> In short, there is no bug in Open MPI 1.5.x regarding to the detection of
>>> oversubscription. Sorry for any confusion!
>>> 
>>> Matthias
>>> 
>>> On Tuesday 28 February 2012 13:36:56 Matthias Jurenz wrote:
>>>> When using Open MPI v1.4.5 I get ~1.1us. That's the same result as I get
>>>> with Open MPI v1.5.x using mpi_yield_when_idle=0.
>>>> So I think there is a bug in Open MPI (v1.5.4 and v1.5.5rc2) regarding to
>>>> the automatic performance mode selection.
>>>> 
>>>> When enabling the degraded performance mode for Open MPI 1.4.5
>>>> (mpi_yield_when_idle=1) I get ~1.8us latencies.
>>>> 
>>>> Matthias
>>>> 
>>>> On Tuesday 28 February 2012 06:20:28 Christopher Samuel wrote:
>>>>> On 13/02/12 22:11, Matthias Jurenz wrote:
>>>>>> Do you have any idea? Please help!
>>>>> 
>>>>> Do you see the same bad latency in the old branch (1.4.5) ?
>>>>> 
>>>>> cheers,
>>>>> Chris
>>>> 
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