I will expose my situation in detail otherwise i think most people will not understand what is happening. I'm using remoting as a tool for communications in the distributed simulation of a pollutant transport in a water body, like an estuary. Parallelization is achieved by domain decomposition, assigning a peace of the 2D computational domain to a machine. One machine, with one processor can receive several partitions (small spatial regions) in order to mitigate the possibility of load imbalances. Therefore, for each machine i have one thread per partition, allowing only one to run. To do so i use a Mutex. To minimize the communication cost i have to find which region inside the partition is influencing the neighboring regions. After that i have to apply the numerical method to them and asynchronously send pollutant mass to the neighbors and at the same time apply the numerical method to those having no influence on neighbors. Thereby, per machine i will have a main thread responsible for the simulation and those as a consequence of the asynchronous neighboring communications. The simulation thread runs with a priority below normal. If for example, i have a cluster with 2 machines and each machine with 9 partitions there is no problem. If i increase the number of partitions per machine i will increase the number of possible neighbors and therefore the number of secondary threads and the problem relies here. After some number of secondary threads, the remoting mechanism will completely stop answering to any new call. Everything will stay stopped and the CPUs will stay idle. To test if it was a problem with synchronization of my responsibility i have a button on my end user application doing some stupid call to one of the server components that i'm sure it has no problems with synchronization. The call will never arrive to the server. The client will stay blocked and my breakpoint at the server side will not capture anything. By all this, i think there is a problem with some remoting class with synchronization. An idle system not answering to nothing it really looks like a synchronization issue. If anyone has some suggestion how to solve this i'd really like to know it.
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