Using OpenMPI 4.0.1 and no configuration files of any kind on a linux
machine which shows 4 CPUS and 2 threads per CPU.  When this is run:

mpirun --allow-run-as-root --oversubscribe -np 3
/usr/common/modules/el8/x86_64/software/q6/6.0.1-CentOS-vanilla/bin/qdynp
eq2.inp

it works and the expected 3 processes run.  However if  oversubscribe
is omitted then this happens:

There are not enough slots available in the system to satisfy the 3
slots that were requested by the application:

It will run with 2 though even without -oversubscribe.  It looks like
it is using CPUs/2 to calculate the slot limit and ignoring threads.
Where is this slot calculation documented?

More details:


$ cat /etc/centos-release
CentOS Linux release 8.1.1911 (Core)
$ mpirun --version
mpirun (Open MPI) 4.0.1
$ lscpu | head -6
Architecture:        x86_64
CPU op-mode(s):      32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order:          Little Endian
CPU(s):              4
On-line CPU(s) list: 0-3
Thread(s) per core:  2
$ gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 8.3.1 20190507 (Red Hat 8.3.1-4)

Thanks,

David Mathog

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