Re: [OMPI users] Calling MPI_Test() too many times results in a time spike

2010-12-15 Thread Jeff Squyres
On Dec 15, 2010, at 9:10 PM, Ioannis Papadopoulos wrote: > I agree that MPI_Test() has to do some progress, but as you can see I am only > sending one message and I busy wait on it - since there is nothing else to do > and no other incoming traffic, I would expect no difference among MPI_Test()

Re: [OMPI users] Calling MPI_Test() too many times results in a time spike

2010-12-15 Thread Ioannis Papadopoulos
On 12/15/2010 07:39 PM, Jeff Squyres wrote: On Nov 30, 2010, at 4:09 PM, Ioannis Papadopoulos wrote: The overall time may be the same, however it is alarming (at least to me) that if you call MPI_Test() too many times, the average time per MPI_Test() call increases. After all, that is what I

Re: [OMPI users] Calling MPI_Test() too many times results in a time spike

2010-12-15 Thread Jeff Squyres
On Nov 30, 2010, at 4:09 PM, Ioannis Papadopoulos wrote: > The overall time may be the same, however it is alarming (at least to me) > that if you call MPI_Test() too many times, the average time per MPI_Test() > call increases. After all, that is what I am trying to measure, how much it > cost

Re: [OMPI users] Calling MPI_Test() too many times results in a time spike

2010-11-30 Thread Ioannis Papadopoulos
Eugene Loh wrote: Ioannis Papadopoulos wrote: Has anyone observed similar behaviour? Is it something that I'll have to deal with it in my code or does it indeed qualify as an issue to be looked into? I would say this is NOT an issue that merits much attention. There are too many potential

Re: [OMPI users] Calling MPI_Test() too many times results in a time spike

2010-11-30 Thread Eugene Loh
Ioannis Papadopoulos wrote: Has anyone observed similar behaviour? Is it something that I'll have to deal with it in my code or does it indeed qualify as an issue to be looked into? I would say this is NOT an issue that merits much attention. There are too many potential performance anomali

Re: [OMPI users] Calling MPI_Test() too many times results in a time spike

2010-11-29 Thread Ioannis Papadopoulos
Hi, Has anyone observed similar behaviour? Is it something that I'll have to deal with it in my code or does it indeed qualify as an issue to be looked into? Thanks Yiannis Papadopoulos wrote: It is a quad core machine (Intel Core2 Quad CPU Q9550 - 64bit). OpenMPI is the one that comes with

Re: [OMPI users] Calling MPI_Test() too many times results in a time spike

2010-11-12 Thread Yiannis Papadopoulos
It is a quad core machine (Intel Core2 Quad CPU Q9550 - 64bit). OpenMPI is the one that comes with Fedora 13. I tested it on a cluster of Intel Xeon (32bit) with Gigabit Ethernet with OpenMPI 1.3.3, the results are: // with no timeout Total time: 1.00309 secs Estimated calls: 1116537 MPI_Test cal

Re: [OMPI users] Calling MPI_Test() too many times results in a time spike

2010-11-12 Thread Jeff Squyres
What kind of network did you do these tests on? Were both processes on the same machine or different machines? On Nov 10, 2010, at 12:29 AM, Yiannis Papadopoulos wrote: > Hello, > > I am using OpenMPI 1.4.1. I have a small test case that calls > MPI_Test() too many times. I see one or two rand

[OMPI users] Calling MPI_Test() too many times results in a time spike

2010-11-10 Thread Yiannis Papadopoulos
Hello, I am using OpenMPI 1.4.1. I have a small test case that calls MPI_Test() too many times. I see one or two random time spikes when this happens. On the other hand, if I avoid calling MPI_Test() based on a timeout, this problem disappears. For example, with no timeout, the results I'm gettin