Interesting, the log_num_mtt and log_mtts_per_seg params where not set. Setting them to utilise 2*8G of my RAM resulted in no change to the stalls or run time ie; (19,3) (20,2) (21,1) or (6,16). In all cases, OpenIB runs in twice the time it takes TCP,except if I push the small message max to 64K and force short messages. Then the openib times are the same as TCP and no faster.
I'ms till at a loss as to why... ________________________________ From: Paul Kapinos <kapi...@rz.rwth-aachen.de> To: Randolph Pullen <randolph_pul...@yahoo.com.au>; Open MPI Users <us...@open-mpi.org> Sent: Tuesday, 28 August 2012 6:13 PM Subject: Re: [OMPI users] Infiniband performance Problem and stalling Randolph, after reading this: On 08/28/12 04:26, Randolph Pullen wrote: > - On occasions it seems to stall indefinately, waiting on a single receive. ... I would make a blind guess: are you aware about IB card parameters for registered memory? http://www.open-mpi.org/faq/?category=openfabrics#ib-low-reg-mem "Waiting forever" for a single operation is one of symptoms of the problem especially in 1.5.3. best, Paul P.S. the lower performance with 'big' chinks is known phenomenon, cf. http://www.scl.ameslab.gov/netpipe/ (image on bottom of the page). But the chunk size of 64k is fairly small -- Dipl.-Inform. Paul Kapinos - High Performance Computing, RWTH Aachen University, Center for Computing and Communication Seffenter Weg 23, D 52074 Aachen (Germany) Tel: +49 241/80-24915
