All, Just thought you should know I've updated padb so that it works correctly with spawned jobs running under orte, before it didn't distinguish between different steps in the same job and it would probably have behaved wrong in a number of different situations.
I've now added a configuration option called 'orte-job-step' which tells it which program to target, the default being undef which expands to the lowest numbered step which is most likely 1. I've copied the nomenclature here from Slurm which enumerates jobs in a similar manner, there doesn't seem to be a specific name orte gives to multiple "jobs" within the same job, if there is and I've missed one I'm happy to change the name of the option to something more appropriate. Ashley, -- Ashley Pittman, Bath, UK. Padb - A parallel job inspection tool for cluster computing http://padb.pittman.org.uk