Hi,
I have setup a Scientific Linux 4.2 (RHEL 4 compatible) as a host
system for a Scientific Linux 3.0.5 (RHEL3 compatible) guest, following the
example for CentOS. I am attemping to run a fortran mpi application within
the guest but I am getting random application crashes or invalid results. The
same setup works fine on a non vserver Scientific Linux 3.0.5 system with
the same software installed. However, after say 5-20 attemps at one point
the program will execute and complete correctly within the vserver.
I suspect it has something to do with the way vserver handles lo
interface, since in the non-vserver system I can see all mpi communication
going through the lo interface, and there is just one connection between
the processes. On the other hand, on the vserver system I can see a lot of
connections opening and closing all the time. If i run tcpdump inside the
vserver for the lo interface I also see the mpi traffic(I have enabled
RAW_NET capability to do so).
I have tried with both mpich1 and mpich2 but it made no
difference. MPICH and the application are compiled with intel c/fortran
compilers. Binding mpich to a spcific ip address did not help,
neither giving a name to the vserver interface or playing with /etc/hosts
and pointing localhost to the vserver's ip address.
Hardware is a Sun dual core dual cpu opteron for the vserver
system and a dual cpu xeon 3.6 for the non-vserver. Vserver system is
using 2.6.14.3 with vserver 2.0.1 and the other one is running
2.4.21-37.0.1.ELsmp.
I would like to listen if other people have any experience on this or
any ideas on how to proceed.
Best regards,
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