An "strace" showed something related to shared memory use was causing the signal. Sticking
btl = ^sm into the openmpi-mca-params.conf file fixed this issue. saurabh From: saur...@hotmail.com To: us...@open-mpi.org Subject: Openmpi 1.10.1 fails with SIGXFSZ on file limit <= 131072 List-Post: users@lists.open-mpi.org Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 15:24:08 -0500 Hi, Sorry my previous email was garbled, sending it again. > cd examples > make hello_cxx > ulimit -f 131073 > orterun -np 3 hello_cxx Hello, world (etc) > ulimit -f 131072 > orterun -np 3 hello_cxx -------------------------------------------------------------------------- orterun noticed that process rank 0 with PID 4473 on node sim16 exited on signal 25 (File size limit exceeded). -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Any thoughts?