[Wien] lapw1 hangs over nfs

2013-12-19 Thread Oliver Albertini
Hello, I am running k-point parallel over nfs, and every few iterations, a k-point process will hang, leaving 'ghost processes' visible under the top command. These processes have 0% cpu utilization. Looking at the error files, the k-point in question will have this type of error: $ cat

Re: [Wien] lapw1 hangs over nfs

2013-12-19 Thread Peter Blaha
This can happen for slow networks or not well configured ones (not enough NFS daemons, ...) a) k-parallelization makes only sense up to a certain granularity. This means, you cannot expect to make the parallelization faster at a certain level of processors. For instance when you have 100