Re: [OMPI users] High CPU usage with yield_when_idle =1 on CFS

2011-09-03 Thread Randolph Pullen
__ From: Jeff Squyres <jsquy...@cisco.com> To: Open MPI Users <us...@open-mpi.org> Sent: Friday, 2 September 2011 9:45 PM Subject: Re: [OMPI users] High CPU usage with yield_when_idle =1 on CFS This might also be in reference to the issue that shed_yield() really does nothing in recent Lin

Re: [OMPI users] High CPU usage with yield_when_idle =1 on CFS

2011-09-02 Thread Jeff Squyres
This might also be in reference to the issue that shed_yield() really does nothing in recent Linux kernels (there was big debate about this at kernel.org). IIRC, there's some kernel parameter that you can tweak to make it behave better, but I'm afraid I don't remember what it is. Some

Re: [OMPI users] High CPU usage with yield_when_idle =1 on CFS

2011-09-01 Thread Eugene Loh
On 8/31/2011 11:48 PM, Randolph Pullen wrote: I recall a discussion some time ago about yield, the Completely F%’d Scheduler (CFS) and OpenMPI. My system is currently suffering from massive CPU use while busy waiting. This gets worse as I try to bump up user concurrency. Yup. I am running

[OMPI users] High CPU usage with yield_when_idle =1 on CFS

2011-09-01 Thread Randolph Pullen
I recall a discussion some time ago about yield, the Completely F%’d Scheduler (CFS) and OpenMPI. My system is currently suffering from massive CPU use while busy waiting.  This gets worse as I try to bump up user concurrency. I am running with yield_when_idle but its not enough. Is there