Re: [OMPI users] Memory allocation issue with OpenIB

2006-03-16 Thread Galen M. Shipman
Emanuel, Thanks for the tip on this issue, we will be adding it to the FAQ shortly. - Galen On Mar 15, 2006, at 4:29 PM, Emanuel Ziegler wrote: Hi Davide! You are using the -prefix option. I guess this is due to the fact that You cannot set the paths appropriately. Most likely You are

Re: [OMPI users] Memory allocation issue with OpenIB

2006-03-15 Thread Davide Bergamasco
Hello Emanuel, thank you for your note. You indirectly fixed my issue. The -prefix option was there because at the beginning of times, when I installed everything, I didn't properly setup my environment. The environment was fixed at a later time, but I forgot to remove the -prefix from my

Re: [OMPI users] Memory allocation issue with OpenIB

2006-03-15 Thread Emanuel Ziegler
Hi Davide! You are using the -prefix option. I guess this is due to the fact that You cannot set the paths appropriately. Most likely You are using rsh for starting remote processes. This causes some trouble since the environment offered by rsh lacks many things that a usual login environment

Re: [OMPI users] Memory allocation issue with OpenIB

2006-03-15 Thread Davide Bergamasco
My shell is tcsh, so I can provide you with the output of "limit": cputime unlimited filesize unlimited datasize unlimited stacksize8192 kbytes coredumpsize 0 kbytes memoryuseunlimited vmemoryuse unlimited descriptors 1024 memorylocked unlimited maxproc 16383 Thanks

Re: [OMPI users] Memory allocation issue with OpenIB

2006-03-15 Thread Galen M. Shipman
thank you for your prompt reply. Yep, I'm able to run my parallel app as root. The following is the command line i use to start the MPI: Since you are able to successfully run the app as root I would say we are dealing with a permissions issue. What does "ulimit -a" report? Galen mpi

Re: [OMPI users] Memory allocation issue with OpenIB

2006-03-15 Thread Davide Bergamasco
Hello Galen, thank you for your prompt reply. Yep, I'm able to run my parallel app as root. The following is the command line i use to start the MPI: mpirun -v -d -hostfile hostfile -np 2 -prefix /usr/local mpi_test Thank you so much for your help! Davide Galen M. Shipman wrote: Hi David

Re: [OMPI users] Memory allocation issue with OpenIB

2006-03-15 Thread Galen M. Shipman
Hi Davide, Are you able to run this as root? This would tell me if this is a permissions issue. Also what options are you specifying to mpirun? Thanks, Galen On Mar 15, 2006, at 1:41 PM, Davide Bergamasco wrote: Hello, I'm trying to run OpenMPI on top of OpenIB but I'm running into a wei

[OMPI users] Memory allocation issue with OpenIB

2006-03-15 Thread Davide Bergamasco
Hello, I'm trying to run OpenMPI on top of OpenIB but I'm running into a weird memory allocation issue. I already tried all the suggestions listed in the FAQs (i.e., increase the locked mem limit, etc.) but I'm still having trouble. After the initialization a get an infinite string of messages l