[OMPI users] could oversubscription clobber an executable?

2009-05-14 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Hello, I am wondering whether light oversubscription could lead to a clobbered program. The particular case is a fortran 77 (for the most part) code I am working with that can only run on powers of 2 processes (starting with power 1). When I run the program on my single-processor laptop, it shows

Re: [OMPI users] could oversubscription clobber an executable?

2009-05-14 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Jeff Squyres wrote: > This sounds like memory badness is occurring somewhere in your > application which eventually corrupts things to make them stop working > (e.g., writing beyond the end of arrays, etc.). Have you run your app > through a memory-checking debugger, perchance? > > I have the co

Re: [OMPI users] could oversubscription clobber an executable?

2009-05-14 Thread Valmor de Almeida
John Hearns wrote: > Have you checked if the OOM killer (out of memory killer) is being > triggered when you run the program on the laptop? > Open a separate window and run 'tail -f /var/log/messages' as the program > runs. Thanks for the reminder. No OOM; the messages file is clean. -- Valmor

Re: [OMPI users] could oversubscription clobber an executable?

2009-05-14 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Jeff Squyres wrote: > This sounds like memory badness is occurring somewhere in your > application which eventually corrupts things to make them stop working > (e.g., writing beyond the end of arrays, etc.). Have you run your app > through a memory-checking debugger, perchance? A related question