Hi,
On Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 09:47:43AM -0500, Jason Swails wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 10:54 PM, Scott Brozell <sbrozell.rci.rutgers.edu>wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 02:04:26PM -0800, Robin Betz wrote:
> > > Regarding infinite hangs on the tests, the Cruisecontrol test task has
> > been
> > > set up with a time limit of 6 hours in which to complete all the tests,
> > > after which it will be killed and will show up in a failure state. Given
> > > that it seems to take about 2 hours at the most, I think this gives
> > plenty
> > > of time for the tests to complete without having to worry about infinite
> > > hangs.
> >
> > But the problem with an overall time limit is that the hung test
> > eats up all the remaining time and the following tests are not run.
> > This has a been a nuisance for several releases where for example
> > testing via a batch queue does not run all the tests because of hangs.
> >
> > For those using mpirun (not me at osc) see -maxtime min and -cpu time.
> > On the other hand a shell wrapper of mpibla for use via DO_PARALLEL
> > "Should be pretty simple for some Bash whizz to figure out."
> >
>
> I hadn't even thought about this. From the mpiexec (mpich2 and mpich3) man
> page:
>
> ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES FOR MPIEXEC
> The following environment variables are understood by some
> versions of mpiexec . The command line arguments have priority over
> these; that is, if both the environment variable and command line
> argument are used, the value specified by the command line argu-
> ment is used.
>
> MPIEXEC_TIMEOUT
> - Maximum running time in seconds. mpiexec will
> terminate MPI programs that take longer than the value specified by
> MPIEXEC_TIMEOUT .
> ...etc.
>
> If you use mpich2, you can just set this environment variable when you run
> the tests. From what I can see, no such analog for OpenMPI (too bad).
My man page didn't show that.
% mpiexec -v
Version 0.84, configure options: '--with-pbs=/usr/local/torque/2.5.10' '--with-default-comm=pmi'
It seems that those features are for MPICH and maybe don't exist yet:
http://wiki.mpich.org/mpich/index.php/Proposed_MPIEXEC_Extensions
Do you actually have them ?
scott
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