I tested my application with the snapshot and it works fine!
thanks.
márcia.

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Ralph Castain <r...@open-mpi.org> wrote:

> Will be in the 1.4 nightly tarball generated later tonight...
>
> Thanks again
> Ralph
>
> On Dec 17, 2009, at 4:07 AM, Marcia Cristina Cera wrote:
>
> very good news!!!!
> I will wait carefully for the release :)
>
> Thanks, Ralph
> márcia.
>
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:56 PM, Ralph Castain <r...@open-mpi.org> wrote:
>
>> Ah crumb - I found the problem. Sigh.
>>
>> I actually fixed this in the trunk over 5 months ago when the problem
>> first surfaced in my own testing, but it never came across to the stable
>> release branch. The problem is that we weren't serializing the comm_spawn
>> requests, and so the launch system gets confused over what has and hasn't
>> completed launch. That's why it works fine on the trunk.
>>
>> I'm creating the 1.4 patch right now. Thanks for catching this. Old brain
>> completely forgot until I started tracking the commit history and found my
>> own footprints!
>>
>> Ralph
>>
>> On Dec 16, 2009, at 5:43 AM, Marcia Cristina Cera wrote:
>>
>> Hi Ralph,
>>
>> I am afraid I have been a little hasty!
>> I remake my tests with more care and I got the same error also with the
>> 1.3.3 :-/
>> but in such version the error happens after some successful executions...
>> because of that I did not realize before!
>> Furthermore, I increased the number of levels of the tree (that means have
>> more concurrently dynamic process creations in the lower levels) and I never
>> arrive to execute without error, unless I add the delay.
>> Perhaps the problem might even be a race condition :(
>>
>> I test with LAM/MPI 7.1.4 and in a first moment it works fine. I have work
>> with LAM for years, but I migrate o OpenMP last year once LAM will be
>> discontinued...
>>
>> I think that I can continue the development of my application adding the
>> delay, while I wait for a release... and I leave the performance tests to be
>> made in the future :)
>>
>> Thank you again Ralph,
>> márcia.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 2:17 AM, Ralph Castain <r...@open-mpi.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Okay, I can replicate this.
>>>
>>> FWIW: your  test program works fine with the OMPI trunk and 1.3.3. It
>>> only has a problem with 1.4. Since I can replicate it on multiple machines
>>> every single time, I don't think it is actually a race condition.
>>>
>>> I think someone made a change to the 1.4 branch that created a failure
>>> mode :-/
>>>
>>> Will have to get back to you on this - may take awhile, and won't be in
>>> the 1.4.1 release.
>>>
>>> Thanks for the replicator!
>>>
>>> On Dec 15, 2009, at 8:35 AM, Marcia Cristina Cera wrote:
>>>
>>> Thank you, Ralph
>>>
>>> I will use the 1.3.3 for now...
>>> while waiting for a future fix release that break this race condiction.
>>>
>>> márcia
>>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Ralph Castain <r...@open-mpi.org>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Looks to me like it is a race condition, and the timing between 1.3.3
>>>> and 1.4 is just enough to trip it. I can break the race, but it will have 
>>>> to
>>>> be in a future fix release.
>>>>
>>>> Meantime, your best bet is to either stick with 1.3.3 or add the delay.
>>>>
>>>> On Dec 15, 2009, at 5:51 AM, Marcia Cristina Cera wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I intend to develop an application using the MPI_Comm_spawn to create
>>>> dynamically new MPI tasks (or processes).
>>>> The structure of the program is like a tree: each node creates 2 new
>>>> ones until reaches a predefined number of levels.
>>>>
>>>> I developed a small program to explain my problem as can be seen in
>>>> attachment.
>>>> -- start.c: launches (through MPI_Comm_spawn, in which the argv has the
>>>> level value) the root of the tree (a ch_rec program). Afterward spawn, a
>>>> message is sent to  child and the process block in an MPI_Recv.
>>>> -- ch_rec.c: gets its level value and receives the parent message, then
>>>> if its level is less than a predefined limit, it will creates 2 children:
>>>>         - set the level value;
>>>>         - spawn 1 child;
>>>>         - send a message;
>>>>         - call an MPI_Irecv;
>>>>         - repeat the 4 previous steps for the second child;
>>>>         - call an MPI_Waitany waiting for children returns.
>>>> When children messages are received, the process send a message to its
>>>> parent and call MPI_Finalize.
>>>>
>>>> Using the openmpi-1.3.3 version the program runs as expected but with
>>>> openmpi-1.4 I get the following error:
>>>>
>>>> $ mpirun -np 1 start
>>>> level 0
>>>> level = 1
>>>> Parent sent: level 0 (pid:4279)
>>>> level = 2
>>>> Parent sent: level 1 (pid:4281)
>>>> [xiru-8.portoalegre.grenoble.grid5000.fr:04278] [[42824,0],0]
>>>> ORTE_ERROR_LOG: Not found in file base/plm_base_launch_support.c at line 
>>>> 758
>>>>
>>>> The error happens when my program try to launch the second child
>>>> immediately after the first spawn call.
>>>> In my tests I try to put an sleep of 2 second between the first and the
>>>> second spawn, and then the program runs as expected.
>>>>
>>>> Some one can help me with this version 1.4 bug?
>>>>
>>>> thanks,
>>>> márcia.
>>>>
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