Hi Ralph, Patience is not an issue since I have a workaround (a locally authenticated user), and other users are not running large enough MPI jobs to hit this problem.
I'm a bit confused now though. I thought that setting this switch would set off 50 ssh sessions at a time, or 50 connections to slapd. I.e. a second group of 50 connections wouldn't initiate until the first group "closed" their sessions, which should be reflected by a corresponding decrease in the number of established connections for slapd. So my conclusion was that no sessions are "closing". There's also the observation that when slapd is slowed down by logging (extensively), things hang with fewer number of established connections (open ssh sessions). I don't see how this fitrs with a total number of connections limitation. Thanks, Todd -----Original Message----- From: users-boun...@open-mpi.org [mailto:users-boun...@open-mpi.org] On Behalf Of Ralph Castain Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 1:28 PM To: Open MPI Users Subject: Re: [OMPI users] large jobs hang on startup (deadlock?) Hi Todd I truly appreciate your patience. If the rate was the same with that switch set, then that would indicate to me that we aren't having trouble getting through the slapd - it probably isn't a problem with how hard we are driving it, but rather with the total number of connections being created. Basically, we need to establish one connection/node to launch the orteds (the app procs are just fork/exec'd by the orteds so they shouldn't see the slapd). The issue may have to do with limits on the total number of LDAP authentication connections allowed for one user. I believe that is settable, but will have to look it up and/or ask a few friends that might know. I have not seen an LDAP-based cluster before (though authentication onto the head node of a cluster is frequently handled that way), but that doesn't mean someone hasn't done it. Again, appreciate the patience. Ralph On 2/7/07 10:28 AM, "Heywood, Todd" <heyw...@cshl.edu> wrote: > Hi Ralph, Unfortunately, adding "-mca pls_rsh_num_concurrent 50" to mpirun > (with just -np and -hostfile) has no effect. The number of established > connections for slapd grows to the same number at the same rate as without it. > BTW, I upgraded from 1.2b2 to 1.2b3 Thanks, TOdd -----Original > Message----- From: users-boun...@open-mpi.org > [mailto:users-boun...@open-mpi.org] On Behalf Of Ralph Castain Sent: Tuesday, > February 06, 2007 6:48 PM To: Open MPI Users Subject: Re: [OMPI users] large > jobs hang on startup (deadlock?) Hi Todd Just as a thought - you could try > not using --debug-daemons or -d and instead setting "-mca > pls_rsh_num_concurrent 50" or some such small number. This will tell the > system to launch 50 ssh calls at a time, waiting for each group to complete > before launching the next. You can't use it with --debug-daemons as that > option prevents the ssh calls from "closing" so that you can get the output > from the daemons. You can still launch as big a job as you like - we'll just > do it 50 ssh calls at a time. If we are truly overwhelming the slapd, then > this should alleviate the problem. Let me know if you get to try > it... Ralph On 2/6/07 4:05 PM, "Heywood, Todd" <heyw...@cshl.edu> wrote: > > Hi Ralph, It looks that way. I created a user local to each node, with > local > authentication via /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow, and OpenMPI scales up > just > fine for that. I know this is an OpenMPI list, but does anyone know > how > common or uncommon LDAP-based clusters are? I would have thought this > issue > would have arisen elsewhere, but Googling MPI+LDAP (and similar) > doesn't turn > up much. I'd certainly be willing to test any patch. > > Thanks. Todd -----Original Message----- From: users-boun...@open-mpi.org > > [mailto:users-boun...@open-mpi.org] On Behalf Of Ralph H Castain Sent: > > Tuesday, February 06, 2007 9:54 AM To: Open MPI Users > > <us...@open-mpi.org> Subject: Re: [OMPI users] large jobs hang on startup > > (deadlock?) It sounds to me like we are probably overwhelming your slapd - > > your test would seem to indicate that slowing down the slapd makes us fail > > even with smaller jobs, which tends to support that idea. We frankly > haven't > encountered that before since our rsh tests have all been done using > non-LDAP > authentication (basically, we ask that you setup rsh > to auto-authenticate on > each node). It sounds like we need to add an ability > to slow down so that the > daemon doesn't "fail" due to authentication > timeout and/or slapd rejection due > to the queue being full. This may take a > little time to fix due to other > priorities, and will almost certainly have > to be released in a subsequent > 1.2.x version. Meantime, I'll let you know > when I get something to test - > would you be willing to give it a shot if I > provide a patch? I don't have > access to an LDAP-based system. Ralph On > 2/6/07 7:44 AM, "Heywood, Todd" > <heyw...@cshl.edu> wrote: > Hi > Ralph, Thanks for the reply. This is a tough > one. It is OpenLDAP. I had > > thought that I might be hitting a file descriptor > limit for slapd (LDAP > > daemon), which ulimit -n does not effect (you have to > rebuild LDAP with a > > different FD_SETSIZE variable). However, I simply turned > on more > expressive > logging to /var/log/slapd, and that resulted in smaller > jobs > (which > successfully ran before) hanging. Go figure. It appears that > > daemons are up > and running (from ps), and everything hangs in MPI_Init. > > Ctl-C > gives [blade1:04524] ERROR: A daemon on node blade26 failed to > start > as > expected. [blade1:04524] ERROR: There may be more information > available > > from [blade1:04524] ERROR: the remote shell (see > above). [blade1:04524] > ERROR: > The daemon exited unexpectedly with status > 255. I'm interested in > any > suggestion, semi-fixes, etc. which might help > get to the bottom of this. > Right > now: whether the daemons are indeed up > and running, or if there are > some that > are not (causing MPI_Init to > > hang). Thanks, Todd -----Original > Message----- From: > > users-boun...@open-mpi.org > [mailto:users-boun...@open-mpi.org] On Behalf > Of > Ralph H Castain Sent: > Tuesday, February 06, 2007 8:52 AM To: Open MPI > > Users > <us...@open-mpi.org> Subject: Re: [OMPI users] large jobs hang on > > startup > (deadlock?) Well, I can't say for sure about LDAP. I did a quick > > search and > found two things: 1. there are limits imposed in LDAP that may > > apply to your > situation, and 2. that statement varies tremendously > > depending upon the > specific LDAP implementation you are using I would > > suggest you see which LDAP > you are using and contact the > > respective organization to ask if they do have > such a limit, and if so, > how > to adjust it. It sounds like maybe we are > hitting the LDAP server > with too > many requests too rapidly. Usually, the issue > is not starting > fast enough, > so this is a new one! We don't currently check to > see if > everything started > up okay, so that is why the processes might hang - > we > hope to fix that soon. > I'll have to see if there is something we can do to > > help alleviate such > problems - might not be in time for the 1.2 release, > but > perhaps it will > make a subsequent "fix" or, if you are > willing/interested, I > could provide > it to you as a "patch" you could use > until a later official > > release. Meantime, you might try upgrading to > 1.2b3 or even a nightly > release > from the trunk. There are known problems > with 1.2b2 (which is why > there is a > b3 and soon to be an rc1), though I > don't think that will be the > problem > here. At the least, the nightly trunk > has a much better response to > ctrl-c in > it. Ralph On 2/5/07 9:50 AM, > "Heywood, Todd" <heyw...@cshl.edu> > wrote: > > Hi Ralph, > > Thanks for > the reply. The OpenMPI version is 1.2b2 > (because I > would like to > > integrate it with SGE). > > Here is what is > happening: > > > (1) > When I run with debug-daemons (but WITHOUT d), I > get ³Daemon> > [0,0,27] > checking in as pid 7620 on host blade28² (for example) > messages for > > most > but not all of the daemons that should be started up, > and then it > hangs. > > I also notice ³reconnecting to LDAP server² messages in > various > > > /var/log/secure files, and cannot login while things are hung > (with ³su:> > > pam_ldap: ldap_result Can't contact LDAP server² in > /var/log/messages). > So > > apparently LDAP hits some limit to opening ssh > sessions, and I¹m not > sure > how > to address this. > (2) When I run with > debug-daemons AND > the debug > option d, all daemons > start start up and > check-in, albeit > slowly (debug > must slow things down so > LDAP can handle > all the > requests??). Then > apparently, the cpi process is > started for each > task > but it then hangs: > > > [blade1:23816] spawn: in > job_state_callback(jobid > = 1, state = 0x4) > > [blade1:23816] Info: Setting up > debugger process table > for applications > > MPIR_being_debugged = 0 > > MPIR_debug_gate = 0 > > MPIR_debug_state = 1 > > MPIR_acquired_pre_main = 0 > > MPIR_i_am_starter = > 0 > MPIR_proctable_size = > 800 > MPIR_proctable: > > (i, host, exe, pid) = > (0, blade1, > /home4/itstaff/heywood/ompi/cpi, 24193) > > Š > Š(i, host, exe, > pid) = (799, > blade213, /home4/itstaff/heywood/ompi/cpi, > 4762) > > A ³ps² > on the head node > shows 200 open ssh sessions, and 4 cpi > processes doing > > nothing. A ^C gives > this: > > mpirun: killing job... > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > WARNING: A process refused to die! > > Host: blade1 > PID: 24193 > > > > This > process may still be running and/or consuming resources. > > > > > > > > Still got a ways to go, but any ideas/suggestions are welcome! > > > > Thanks, > > > Todd > > > > > From: users-boun...@open-mpi.org > > > [mailto:users-boun...@open-mpi.org] On Behalf > Of Ralph Castain > Sent: > > > Friday, February 02, 2007 5:20 PM > To: Open MPI Users > Subject: Re: > [OMPI > > users] large jobs hang on startup (deadlock?) > > Hi Todd > > To > help us > > provide advice, could you tell us what version of OpenMPI you > are > using? > > > > Meantime, try adding ³-mca pls_rsh_num_concurrent 200² > to your mpirun > > command > line. You can up the number of concurrent daemons > we launch to > > anything your > system will support basically, we limit the > number only > > because some systems > have limits on the number of ssh calls > we can have > > active at any one time. > Because we hold stdio open when > running with > > ‹debug-daemons, the number of > concurrent daemons must match > or exceed the > > number of nodes you are trying to > launch on. > > I have a > ³fix² in the > > works that will help relieve some of that restriction, > but > that won¹t come > > out until a later release. > > Hopefully, that will allow > you to obtain > more > debug info about why/where > things are hanging. > > > Ralph > > > On > 2/2/07 > 11:41 AM, "Heywood, Todd" <heyw...@cshl.edu> > wrote: > I have OpenMPI > running > fine for a small/medium number of tasks > (simple hello > or cpi > program). But > when I try 700 or 800 tasks, it > hangs, apparently on > > startup. I think this > might be related to LDAP, > since if I try to log into > my > account while the > job is hung, I get told > my username doesn¹t exist. > However, > I tried adding > debug to the mpirun, > and got the same sequence of > output as > for successful > smaller runs, > until it hung again. So I added > -debug-daemons > and got this > (with an > exit, i.e. no hanging): > Š > > [blade1:31733] [0,0,0] wrote setup > file > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > The rsh launcher has been given a number of 128 concurrent daemons to > > > launch > and is in a debug-daemons option. However, the total number of > > > daemons to > launch (200) is greater than this value. This is a scenario > > that > will cause > the system to deadlock. > > To avoid deadlock, either > > increase the number of > concurrent daemons, or > remove the debug-daemons > > flag. > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > [blade1:31733] [0,0,0] ORTE_ERROR_LOG: Fatal in file > > > > ../../../../../orte/mca/rmgr/urm/ > rmgr_urm.c at line 455 > > [blade1:31733] > > mpirun: spawn failed with errno=-6 > [blade1:31733] > sess_dir_finalize: proc > > session dir not empty - leaving > > Any ideas or > suggestions > appreciated. > > > Todd Heywood > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > > > > us...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing > > list > > us...@open-mpi.org > > > > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users _______________________ > > > ________________________ users mailing > > > list us...@open-mpi.org http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users __ > > > _____________________________________________ users mailing > > > list us...@open-mpi.org http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users > > _______________________________________________ users mailing > > list us...@open-mpi.org http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users __ > > _____________________________________________ users mailing > > list us...@open-mpi.org http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users > _______________________________________________ users mailing > list us...@open-mpi.org http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users __ > _____________________________________________ users mailing > list us...@open-mpi.org http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users _______________________________________________ users mailing list us...@open-mpi.org http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users
