On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 20:58, Nicolas Bock <nicolasb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 18:03, Ralph Castain <r...@open-mpi.org> wrote: > >> You may want to check your limits as defined by the shell/system. I can >> also run this for as long as I'm willing to let it run, so something else >> appears to be going on. >> >> >> > Is that with 1.3.3? I found that with 1.3.4 I can run the example much > longer until I hit this error message: > > > [master] (31996) forking processes > [mujo:14273] opal_os_dirpath_create: Error: Unable to create the > sub-directory (/tmp/.private/nbock/openmpi-sessions-nbock@mujo_0/13386/31998) > of (/tmp/.private/nbock/openmpi-sessions-nbock@mujo_0/13386/31998/0), > mkdir failed [1] > [mujo:14273] [[13386,31998],0] ORTE_ERROR_LOG: Error in file > util/session_dir.c at line 101 > [mujo:14273] [[13386,31998],0] ORTE_ERROR_LOG: Error in file > util/session_dir.c at line 425 > [mujo:14273] [[13386,31998],0] ORTE_ERROR_LOG: Error in file > base/ess_base_std_app.c at line 132 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > It looks like orte_init failed for some reason; your parallel process is > likely to abort. There are many reasons that a parallel process can > fail during orte_init; some of which are due to configuration or > environment problems. This failure appears to be an internal failure; > here's some additional information (which may only be relevant to an > Open MPI developer): > > orte_session_dir failed > --> Returned value Error (-1) instead of ORTE_SUCCESS > > After some googling I found that this is apparently an ext3 filesystem limitation, i.e. there can be only 31998 subdirectories in a directory. Why is openmpi creating all of these directories in the first place? Is there a way to "recycle" them? nick
