Hi Ralph I finally got around to install version 1.4. The xterm works fine.
And in order to get gdb going on the spawned processes, i need to add an argument "--args" in the argument list of the spawner so that the parameters of the spawned processes are getting through gdb. Thanks again Jody On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Ashley Pittman <ash...@pittman.co.uk> wrote: > On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 12:06 +0100, jody wrote: > >> Has anybody got some hints on how to debug spawned processes? > > If you can live with the processes starting normally and attaching gdb > to them after they have started then you could use padb. > > Assuming you only have one job active (replace -a with the job-id if you > don't) and watch to target the first spawned job then the following > command will launch an xterm for each rank in the job and automatically > attach to the process for you. > > padb -Oorte-job-step=2 --command -Ocommand="xterm -T %r -e 'gdb -p %p'" > -a > > You'll need to use the SVN version of padb for this, the "orte-job-step" > option tells it to attach to the first spawned job, use orte-ps to see > the list of job steps. > > Ashley, > > -- > > Ashley Pittman, Bath, UK. > > Padb - A parallel job inspection tool for cluster computing > http://padb.pittman.org.uk > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > us...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users >
