fast commands give warning in case of comm=none
Pete Wyckoff
pw at osc.edu
Mon Nov 27 17:02:53 EST 2006
thomas.zeiser at rrze.uni-erlangen.de wrote on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 22:28 +0100:
> if I do something like
> mpiexec -comm=none -pernode hostname
> I sometimes get a warning
> mpiexec: Warning: tasks 0-15 exited before completing MPI
> startup.
>
> So far I only observed this if
> - the command is very fast
> - or the wrong MPI implementation is specified.
>
> Is it a feature or a bug that "comm=none" sometimes results in the
> warning given above for very fast commands?
That appears to be an obvious bug---we don't care if a task exits
before all the others have been spawned in the COMM_NONE case. I
checked in a fix just now. Be happy that you have a very fast
machine. Thanks,
-- Pete
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