yeah, know that you mention it, i remember (old brain here, as well) But IIRC you created a OMPI version which was called 1.4a1r or something, where i indeed could use this xterm. When i updated to 1.3.2, i sort of forgot about it again...
Another question though: You said "If it includes the -xterm option, then that option gets applied to the dynamically spawned procs too" Does this passing on also apply to the -x options? Thanks Jody On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Ralph Castain <r...@open-mpi.org> wrote: > It is in a later version - pretty sure it made 1.3.3. IIRC, I added it at > your request :-) > > On Dec 16, 2009, at 7:20 AM, jody wrote: > >> Thanks for your reply >> >> That sounds good. I have Open-MPI version 1.3.2, and mpirun seems not >> to recognize the --xterm option. >> [jody@plankton tileopt]$ mpirun --xterm -np 1 ./boss 9 sample.tlf >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> mpirun was unable to launch the specified application as it could not >> find an executable: >> >> Executable: 1 >> Node: aim-plankton.uzh.ch >> >> while attempting to start process rank 0. >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> (if i reverse the --xterm and -np 1, it complains about not finding >> executable '9') >> Do i need to install a higher version, or is this something i'd have >> to set as option in configure? >> >> Thank You >> Jody >> >> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Ralph Castain <r...@open-mpi.org> wrote: >>> Depends on the version you are working with. If it includes the -xterm >>> option, then that option gets applied to the dynamically spawned procs too, >>> so this should be automatically taken care of...but in that case, you >>> wouldn't need your script to open an xterm anyway. You would just do: >>> >>> mpirun --xterm -np 5 gdb ./my_app >>> >>> or the equivalent. You would then comm_spawn an argv[0] of "gdb", with >>> argv[1] being your target app. >>> >>> I don't know how to avoid including that "gdb" in the comm_spawn argv's - I >>> once added an mpirun cmd line option to automatically add it, but got >>> loudly told to remove it. Of course, it should be easy to pass an option >>> to your app itself that tells it whether or not to do so! >>> >>> HTH >>> Ralph >>> >>> >>> On Dec 16, 2009, at 4:06 AM, jody wrote: >>> >>>> Hi >>>> Until now i always wrote applications for which the number of processes >>>> was given on the command line with -np. >>>> To debug these applications i wrote a script, run_gdb.sh which basically >>>> open a xterm and starts gdb in it for my application. >>>> This allowed me to have a window for each of the processes being debugged. >>>> >>>> Now, however, i write my first application in which additional processes >>>> are >>>> being spawned. My question is now: how can i open xterm windows in which >>>> gdb runs for the spawned processes? >>>> >>>> The only way i can think of is to pass my script run_gdb.sh into the argv >>>> parameters of MPI_Spawn. >>>> Would this be correct? >>>> If yes, what about other parameters passed to the spawning process, such as >>>> environment variables passed via -x? Are they being passed to the spawned >>>> processes as well? In my case this would be necessary so that processes >>>> on other machine will get the $DISPLAY environment variable in order to >>>> display their xterms with gdb on my workstation. >>>> >>>> Another negative point would be the need to change the argv parameters >>>> every time one switches between debugging and normal running. >>>> >>>> Has anybody got some hints on how to debug spawned processes? >>>> >>>> Thank You >>>> Jody >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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 >
