Re: [OMPI users] mem lock limit & ulimit

2010-08-18 Thread Jeff Squyres
If you're using IB for HPC/MPI, you probably want an unlimited memlock limit. Keep in mind that you need to start the slurm daemons with the desired memlock limit, too -- if they're started via init.d, for example, they won't be subject to /etc/security/limits.conf. On Aug 18, 2010, at 12:08 P

Re: [OMPI users] mem lock limit & ulimit

2010-08-18 Thread Ralph Castain
ulimit basically states that a normal user can increase a specific limit up to the maximum specified by root, either via system limit settings or during configuration of the OS. So the 256 limit you are seeing is one set locally. I would suggest asking your sys admin for a higher limit if you r

[OMPI users] mem lock limit & ulimit

2010-08-18 Thread stabeek
Hello, I've done a good bit of reading and still cannot get my mpirun programs to execute without giving warnings about the memory lock limit not being "unlimited". I'm on an infiniband-(openib)-networked cluster under slurm resource mgmt using openmpi. Initially I did not want to set max