I believe I have at least helped reduce this with r17761. I added the ability for procs to detect that their "lifeline" connection (either the HNP for unity routed, or their local daemon for tree) has been lost and gracefully abort.
Let me know if that helps Ralph On 3/4/08 9:37 PM, "Aurélien Bouteiller" <boute...@eecs.utk.edu> wrote: > I noticed that the new release of orte is not as good as it used to be > to cleanup the mess left by crashed/aborted mpi processes. Recently We > have been experiencing a lot of zombie or live locked processes > running on the cluster nodes and disturbing following experiments. I > didn't really had time to investigate the issue, maybe ralph can set a > ticket if he is able to reproduce this. > > Aurelien > -- > * Dr. Aurélien Bouteiller > * Sr. Research Associate at Innovative Computing Laboratory > * University of Tennessee > * 1122 Volunteer Boulevard, suite 350 > * Knoxville, TN 37996 > * 865 974 6321 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list > de...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/devel