Very strange. As I said, we routinely launch jobs spanning several hundred nodes without problem. You can see the platform files for that setup in contrib/platform/lanl/tlcc
That said, it is always possible you are hitting some kind of race condition we don't hit. In looking at the code, one possibility would be to make all the communications flow through the daemon cmd processor in orte/orted_comm.c. This is the way it used to work until I reorganized the code a year ago for other reasons that never materialized. Unfortunately, the daemon collective has to wait until the local launch cmd has been completely processed so it can know whether or not to wait for contributions from local procs before sending along the collective message, so this kinda limits our options. About the only other thing you could do would be to not send the relay at all until -after- processing the local launch cmd. You can then remove the "wait" in the daemon collective as you will know how many local procs are involved, if any. I used to do it that way and it guarantees it will work. The negative is that we lose some launch speed as the next nodes in the tree don't get the launch message until this node finishes launching all its procs. The way around that, of course, would be to: 1. process the launch message, thus extracting the number of any local procs and setting up all data structures...but do -not- launch the procs at this time (as this is what takes all the time) 2. send the relay - the daemon collective can now proceed without a "wait" in it 3. now launch the local procs It would be a fairly simple reorganization of the code in the orte/mca/odls area. I can do it this weekend if you like, or you can do it - either way is fine, but if you do it, please contribute it back to the trunk. Ralph On Nov 19, 2009, at 1:39 AM, Sylvain Jeaugey wrote: > I would say I use the default settings, i.e. I don't set anything "special" > at configure. > > I'm launching my processes with SLURM (salloc + mpirun). > > Sylvain > > On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, Ralph Castain wrote: > >> How did you configure OMPI? >> >> What launch mechanism are you using - ssh? >> >> On Nov 17, 2009, at 9:01 AM, Sylvain Jeaugey wrote: >> >>> I don't think so, and I'm not doing it explicitely at least. How do I know ? >>> >>> Sylvain >>> >>> On Tue, 17 Nov 2009, Ralph Castain wrote: >>> >>>> We routinely launch across thousands of nodes without a problem...I have >>>> never seen it stick in this fashion. >>>> >>>> Did you build and/or are using ORTE threaded by any chance? If so, that >>>> definitely won't work. >>>> >>>> On Nov 17, 2009, at 9:27 AM, Sylvain Jeaugey wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi all, >>>>> >>>>> We are currently experiencing problems at launch on the 1.5 branch on >>>>> relatively large number of nodes (at least 80). Some processes are not >>>>> spawned and orted processes are deadlocked. >>>>> >>>>> When MPI processes are calling MPI_Init before send_relay is complete, >>>>> the send_relay function and the daemon_collective function are doing a >>>>> nice interlock : >>>>> >>>>> Here is the scenario : >>>>>> send_relay >>>>> performs the send tree : >>>>>> orte_rml_oob_send_buffer >>>>> > orte_rml_oob_send >>>>> > opal_wait_condition >>>>> Waiting on completion from send thus calling opal_progress() >>>>> > opal_progress() >>>>> But since a collective request arrived from the network, entered : >>>>> > daemon_collective >>>>> However, daemon_collective is waiting for the job to be initialized (wait >>>>> on jobdat->launch_msg_processed) before continuing, thus calling : >>>>> > opal_progress() >>>>> >>>>> At this time, the send may complete, but since we will never go back to >>>>> orte_rml_oob_send, we will never perform the launch (setting >>>>> jobdat->launch_msg_processed to 1). >>>>> >>>>> I may try to solve the bug (this is quite a top priority problem for me), >>>>> but maybe people who are more familiar with orted than I am may propose a >>>>> nice and clean solution ... >>>>> >>>>> For those who like real (and complete) gdb stacks, here they are : >>>>> #0 0x0000003b7fed4f38 in poll () from /lib64/libc.so.6 >>>>> #1 0x00007fd0de5d861a in poll_dispatch (base=0x930230, arg=0x91a4b0, >>>>> tv=0x7fff0d977880) at poll.c:167 >>>>> #2 0x00007fd0de5d586f in opal_event_base_loop (base=0x930230, flags=1) >>>>> at event.c:823 >>>>> #3 0x00007fd0de5d556b in opal_event_loop (flags=1) at event.c:746 >>>>> #4 0x00007fd0de5aeb6d in opal_progress () at runtime/opal_progress.c:189 >>>>> #5 0x00007fd0dd340a02 in daemon_collective (sender=0x97af50, >>>>> data=0x97b010) at grpcomm_bad_module.c:696 >>>>> #6 0x00007fd0dd341809 in process_msg (fd=-1, opal_event=1, >>>>> data=0x97af20) at grpcomm_bad_module.c:901 >>>>> #7 0x00007fd0de5d5334 in event_process_active (base=0x930230) at >>>>> event.c:667 >>>>> #8 0x00007fd0de5d597a in opal_event_base_loop (base=0x930230, flags=1) >>>>> at event.c:839 >>>>> #9 0x00007fd0de5d556b in opal_event_loop (flags=1) at event.c:746 >>>>> #10 0x00007fd0de5aeb6d in opal_progress () at runtime/opal_progress.c:189 >>>>> #11 0x00007fd0dd340a02 in daemon_collective (sender=0x979700, >>>>> data=0x9676e0) at grpcomm_bad_module.c:696 >>>>> #12 0x00007fd0dd341809 in process_msg (fd=-1, opal_event=1, >>>>> data=0x9796d0) at grpcomm_bad_module.c:901 >>>>> #13 0x00007fd0de5d5334 in event_process_active (base=0x930230) at >>>>> event.c:667 >>>>> #14 0x00007fd0de5d597a in opal_event_base_loop (base=0x930230, flags=1) >>>>> at event.c:839 >>>>> #15 0x00007fd0de5d556b in opal_event_loop (flags=1) at event.c:746 >>>>> #16 0x00007fd0de5aeb6d in opal_progress () at runtime/opal_progress.c:189 >>>>> #17 0x00007fd0dd340a02 in daemon_collective (sender=0x97b420, >>>>> data=0x97b4e0) at grpcomm_bad_module.c:696 >>>>> #18 0x00007fd0dd341809 in process_msg (fd=-1, opal_event=1, >>>>> data=0x97b3f0) at grpcomm_bad_module.c:901 >>>>> #19 0x00007fd0de5d5334 in event_process_active (base=0x930230) at >>>>> event.c:667 >>>>> #20 0x00007fd0de5d597a in opal_event_base_loop (base=0x930230, flags=1) >>>>> at event.c:839 >>>>> #21 0x00007fd0de5d556b in opal_event_loop (flags=1) at event.c:746 >>>>> #22 0x00007fd0de5aeb6d in opal_progress () at runtime/opal_progress.c:189 >>>>> #23 0x00007fd0dd969a8a in opal_condition_wait (c=0x97b210, m=0x97b1a8) at >>>>> ../../../../opal/threads/condition.h:99 >>>>> #24 0x00007fd0dd96a4bf in orte_rml_oob_send (peer=0x7fff0d9785a0, >>>>> iov=0x7fff0d978530, count=1, tag=1, flags=16) at rml_oob_send.c:153 >>>>> #25 0x00007fd0dd96ac4d in orte_rml_oob_send_buffer (peer=0x7fff0d9785a0, >>>>> buffer=0x7fff0d9786b0, tag=1, flags=0) at rml_oob_send.c:270 >>>>> #26 0x00007fd0de86ed2a in send_relay (buf=0x7fff0d9786b0) at >>>>> orted/orted_comm.c:127 >>>>> #27 0x00007fd0de86f6de in orte_daemon_cmd_processor (fd=-1, opal_event=1, >>>>> data=0x965fc0) at orted/orted_comm.c:308 >>>>> #28 0x00007fd0de5d5334 in event_process_active (base=0x930230) at >>>>> event.c:667 >>>>> #29 0x00007fd0de5d597a in opal_event_base_loop (base=0x930230, flags=0) >>>>> at event.c:839 >>>>> #30 0x00007fd0de5d556b in opal_event_loop (flags=0) at event.c:746 >>>>> #31 0x00007fd0de5d5418 in opal_event_dispatch () at event.c:682 >>>>> #32 0x00007fd0de86e339 in orte_daemon (argc=19, argv=0x7fff0d979ca8) at >>>>> orted/orted_main.c:769 >>>>> #33 0x00000000004008e2 in main (argc=19, argv=0x7fff0d979ca8) at >>>>> orted.c:62 >>>>> >>>>> Thanks in advance, >>>>> Sylvain >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> devel mailing list >>>>> de...@open-mpi.org >>>>> http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/devel >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> devel mailing list >>>> de...@open-mpi.org >>>> http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/devel >>>> >>>> >>> 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