When my MPI code fails (seg fault), it usually cause the rest of the mpi process to abort as well. Perhaps rather than calling abort(), perhaps you could do a divide-by-zero operation to halt the program?
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 6:49 PM, David Ronis <david.ro...@mcgill.ca> wrote: > I've got a mpi program that is supposed to to generate a core file if > problems arise on any of the nodes. I tried to do this by adding a > call to abort() to my exit routines but this doesn't work; I get no core > file, and worse, mpirun doesn't detect that one of my nodes has > aborted(?) and doesn't kill off the entire job, except in the trivial > case where the number of processors I'm running on is 1. I've replaced > abort with MPI_Abort, which kills everything off, but leaves no core > file. Any suggestions how I can get one and still have mpi exit? > > Thanks in advance. > > David > > > > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > us...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users > -- David Zhang University of California, San Diego
