Ralph, I'm seeing problems with MPIEXEC_TIMEOUT in v1.7 @ r31103 (fairly close to HEAD):
----8<---- MPIEXEC_TIMEOUT=8 mpirun --mca btl usnic,sm,self -np 4 ./sleeper -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The user-provided time limit for job execution has been reached: MPIEXEC_TIMEOUT: 8 seconds The job will now be aborted. Please check your code and/or adjust/remove the job execution time limit (as specified by MPIEXEC_TIMEOUT in your environment). -------------------------------------------------------------------------- srun: error: mpi015: task 0: Killed srun: Terminating job step 689585.2 srun: Job step aborted: Waiting up to 2 seconds for job step to finish. ^C[savbu-usnic-a:26668] [[14634,0],0]->[[14634,0],1] mca_oob_tcp_msg_send_bytes: write failed: Connection reset by peer (104) [sd = 16] [savbu-usnic-a:26668] [[14634,0],0]-[[14634,0],1] mca_oob_tcp_peer_send_handler: unable to send header ^CAbort is in progress...hit ctrl-c again within 5 seconds to forcibly terminate ^C ----8<---- Where each of the "^C" is a ctrl-c with arbitrary was allowed to pass beforehand (several minutes for the first two, <5s in the third). Where "sleeper" is just an MPI program that does: ----8<---- MPI_Init(&argc, &argv); MPI_Comm_rank(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &wrank); MPI_Comm_size(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &wsize); while (1) { sleep(60); } MPI_Finalize(); ----8<---- It happens under slurm and SSH. If I launch on localhost (no --host/--hostfile option, no slurm, etc.) then it exits just fine. The example output I gave above used the "usnic" BTL, but "tcp" has identical behavior. This worked fine in v1.7.4. I've bisected the change in behavior down to r30981: https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/changeset/30981 Should I file a ticket? -Dave