Thanks for looking into this! I'm going to file a feature enhancement for OMPI to add this option once the PGI debugger works with Open MPI (I don't want to add it before then, because it may be misleading to users).
> -----Original Message----- > From: users-boun...@open-mpi.org > [mailto:users-boun...@open-mpi.org] On Behalf Of Andrew J Caird > Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 9:16 PM > To: Open MPI Users > Subject: Re: [OMPI users] OpenMPI, debugging, and Portland > Group's pgdbg > > > This took a long time for me to get to, but once I did, what > I found was > that the closest thing to working for the PGI compilers with > OpenMPI is > this command: > mpirun --debugger "pgdbg @mpirun@ @mpirun_args@" --debug > -np 2 ./cpi > > It appears to work, that is, you can select a process with the "proc" > command in pgdbg and set break points and all, but pgdbg > prints a lot of > error messages that are all the same: > db_set_code_brk : DiBreakpointSet fails > which is sort of annoying, but didn't impede my debugging of > my 100-line > MPI test program. > > I posted this to the PGI Debugger Forum: > http://www.pgroup.com/userforum/viewtopic.php?p=1969 > and got a response saying (hopefully Mat doesn't mind me > quoting him):: > > > Hi Andy, > > Actually I'm pleasantly surprised that PGDBG works at all > with OpenMPI > > since PGDBG currently only supports MPICH. While we're planning on > > adding OpenMPI and MPICH-2 support later this year, in the > immediate > > future, there isn't a work around this problem, other than to use > > MPICH. > > Thanks, > > Mat > > So I guess the short answer is that is might sort of work if > you really > need it, otherwise it's best to wait a little while. > > --andy > > On Fri, 16 Jun 2006, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) wrote: > > > I'm afraid that I'm not familiar with the PG debugger, so I > don't know > > how it is supposed to be launched. > > > > The intent with --debugger / --debug is that you could do a single > > invocation of some command and it launches both the > parallel debugger > > and tells that debugger to launch your parallel MPI process > (assumedly > > allowing the parallel debugger to attach to your parallel > MPI process). > > This is what fx2 and Totalview allow, for example. > > > > As such, the "--debug" option is simply syntactic sugar for invoking > > another [perhaps non-obvious] command. We figured it was > simpler for > > users to add "--debug" to the already-familiar mpirun > command line than > > to learn a new syntax for invoking a debugger (although both would > > certainly work equally well). > > > > As such, when OMPI's mpirun sees "--debug", it ends up exec'ing > > something else -- the parallel debugger command. In the > example that I > > gave in > http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/users/2005/11/0370.php, > > mpirun looked for two things in your path: totalview and fx2. > > > > For example, if you did this: > > > > mpirun --debug -np 4 a.out > > > > If it found totalview, it would end up exec'ing: > > > > totalview @mpirun@ -a @mpirun_args@ > > which would get substituted to > > totalview mpirun -a -np 4 a.out > > > > (note the additional "-a") Which is the totalview command > line syntax to > > launch their debugger and tell it to launch your parallel > process. If > > totalview is not found in your path, it'll look for fx2. If fx2 is > > found, it'll invoke: > > > > fx2 @mpirun@ -a @mpirun_args@ > > which would get substitued to > > fx2 mpirun -a -np 4 a.out > > > > You can see that fx2's syntax was probably influenced by > totalview's. > > > > So what you need is the command line that tells pgdbg to do the same > > thing -- launch your app and attach to it. You can then > substitute that > > into the "--debugger" option (using the @mpirun@ and @mpirun_args@ > > tokens), or set the MCA parameter > "orte_base_user_debugger", and then > > use --debug. For example, if the pgdbg syntax is similar to that of > > totalview and fx2, then you could do the following: > > > > mpirun --debugger pgdbg @mpirun@ -a @mpirun_args@ --debug -np 4 > > a.out > > or (assuming tcsh) > > shell% setenv OMPI_MCA_orte_base_user_debugger "pgdbg @mpirun@ > > -a @mpirun_args@" > > shell% mpirun --debug -np 4 a.out > > > > Make sense? > > > > If you find a fixed format for pgdb, we'd be happy to add it to the > > default value of the orte_base_user_debugger MCA parameter. > > > > Note that OMPI currently only supports the Totalview API > for attaching > > to MPI processes -- I don't know if pgdbg requires something else. > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > us...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users >
