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WHAT: Add new tool to retrieve/monitor process stats
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WHY: Several of us have had user requests to provide a
convenient way of obtaining reports on memory usage and
other typical stats from their MPI procs. The notion was to
create a tool that would allow a user to specify multiple ranks
(which could be on any number of nodes), and have the tool
query mpirun to get the info. This would avoid the necessity
of users remotely logging into multiple nodes to run top, ps,
or other stat tools - and from having to use something heavy
like Totalview for such a small purpose.
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WHERE: Involves the following:
1. new opal framework "opal/mca/pstat" with components
to support obtaining process stats from the different OS's.
Note that application procs do -not- open this framework.
The open/select functions are -only- in the orte_init procedures
for the HNP and orteds. This is because an app would never
have any reason to call this framework, so there is no reason
to open it.
2. new "orte-top" tool (also avail as ompi-top) that sends
the top request to the specified mpirun and prints out
the returned data. No fancy screen handling - just basic
printout
3. slight mods to orted_comm to receive and process the
new cmd
4. added new cmd flag define to orte/mca/odls/odls_types.h
5. added new base function to orte/mca/odls/base/odls_base_default_fns.c
to lookup the specified child and call opal_pstat to get
the info
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WHEN: I would like to do this before the holiday break, if
possible, given that Sun, Cisco, and IU are all aware and
supportive of this change. However, since a number of
community members are tied up with the MPI Forum next week,
I propose to see if there are any immediate concerns and, if so,
wait until after the holiday to more thoroughly discuss them.
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TIMEOUT: Dec 23
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