Zombie mpiexec processes

[Martin Schafföner]

On Wednesday 01 February 2006 20:14, Martin Schafföner wrote:
> On Tuesday 31 January 2006 14:08, Martin Schafföner wrote:
> > > approach would be to use "-nostdin -nostdout" to prevent the fork of
> > > the stdio listener and see if that fixes it, narrowing the problem a
> > > bit.
> >
> > We will try this next.
>
> It seems you were right about fixing the problem if "-nostdin -nostdout" is
> used. We have not been able to make the repeatedly failing test fail again
> with these additional switches.

I take back my last comment and testify the opposite. "-nostdin -nostdout" 
does _not_ fix the problem. We again have an mpiexec process dangling around, 
but not in zombie state. Even though the respective client command is 
finished, the mpiexec process on MS is not.

Regards,
-- 
Martin Schafföner

Cognitive Systems Group, Institute of Electronics, Signal Processing and 
Communication Technologies, Department of Electrical Engineering, 
Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Phone: +49 391 6720063