Re: [OMPI devel] MPI_Comm_spawn fails under certain conditions

2014-06-25 Thread Ralph Castain
I see your point, but I don't know how to make that happen. The problem is that spawn really should fail under certain conditions because you asked us to do something we couldn't do - i.e., you asked that we launch and bind more processes then we could. Increasing the number of available resources

Re: [OMPI devel] MPI_Comm_spawn fails under certain conditions

2014-06-24 Thread Gilles Gouaillardet
Hi Ralph, On 2014/06/25 2:51, Ralph Castain wrote: > Had a chance to review this with folks here, and we think that having > oversubscribe automatically set overload makes some sense. However, we do > want to retain the ability to separately specify oversubscribe and overload > as well since these

Re: [OMPI devel] MPI_Comm_spawn fails under certain conditions

2014-06-24 Thread Ralph Castain
Hi Gilles Had a chance to review this with folks here, and we think that having oversubscribe automatically set overload makes some sense. However, we do want to retain the ability to separately specify oversubscribe and overload as well since these two terms don't mean quite the same thing. Our

[OMPI devel] MPI_Comm_spawn fails under certain conditions

2014-06-24 Thread Gilles Gouaillardet
Folks, this issue is related to the failures reported by mtt on the trunk when the ibm test suite invokes MPI_Comm_spawn. my test bed is made of 3 (virtual) machines with 2 sockets and 8 cpus per socket each. if i run on one host (without any batch manager) mpirun -np 16 --host slurm1 --oversub