Sephane,

Make sure you point out that this only occurs when using a lustre filesystem.

JB

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
Behalf Of Stéphane Backaert
Sent: 05 February 2012 23:21
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Hdf-forum] can not open/close a file more than 1010 times

Dear all,

I am using the HDF5-parallel API on a Cray XE6. This had been working fine 
until a few weeks. This is probably something related to this machine (since a 
maintenance?) so I sent my issue to the helpdesk of this Cray, but I submit my 
problem to you as well. I have this problem only with this machine, no problem 
with another machine (not Cray) used.

Problem:
With parallel version of HDF5, we can not open-and-close the same hdf5 file 
more than a fixed number of times (1010). Moreover, if we try to 
open-and-close, for example, two different hdf5 files, this maximum number is 
divided by two: is there a limit of the number of hdf5 files opening allowed?

Observations:
This problem can be reproduced, still the same given number of opening/closing 
allowed.
This problem does not depend on the number of mpi procs involved (test up to 
512 cores, still 1010 opening before crash), or on the quantity written, or on 
the actions made with an opened file ( like create dataset, attributes or 
group).
We checked the status of each hdf5 operations (hdferror argument): no one 
complains before the crash. So every file seems to be correctly opened/closed.  
No different behavior if we force the file opening property with 
H5F_CLOSE_STRONG_F.
The hdf5 file created and used before the crash is still readable and all data 
written in it before are ok.

Setup:
This problem occurs with the hdf5-parallel version 1.5.8.0 and 1.8.8, both 
compiled with the intel compiler 12.0.3.174, only on a Cray XE6 (I could send 
the module config used).

A basic code reproduces our hdf5 calls structure. The attached code produced 
the described error. It is compiled with the command "h5pfc -FR main.F -o test".

Here is a part of the standard error, produced when the code reached the 1010th 
opening:

HDF5-DIAG: Error detected in HDF5 (1.8.5) MPI-process 0:
  #000: H5F.c line 1495 in H5Fopen(): unable to open file
    major: File accessability
    minor: Unable to open file
  #001: H5F.c line 1195 in H5F_open(): unable to open file
    major: File accessability
    minor: Unable to open file
  #002: H5FD.c line 1088 in H5FD_open(): open failed
    major: Virtual File Layer
    minor: Unable to initialize object
  #003: H5FDmpio.c line 999 in H5FD_mpio_open(): MPI_File_open failed
    major: Internal error (too specific to document in detail)
    minor: Some MPI function failed
  #004: H5FDmpio.c line 999 in H5FD_mpio_open(): Other I/O error , error stack:
ADIOI_UFS_OPEN(108): Other I/O error Too many open files
    major: Internal error (too specific to document in detail)
    minor: MPI Error String
HDF5-DIAG: Error detected in HDF5 (1.8.5) MPI-process 0:
  #000: H5F.c line 1943 in H5Fclose(): invalid file identifier
    major: Invalid arguments to routine
    minor: Inappropriate type
HDF5-DIAG: Error detected in HDF5 (1.8.5) MPI-process 1:
  #000: H5F.c line 1495 in H5Fopen(): unable to open file
    major: File accessability
    minor: Unable to open file
  #001: H5F.c line 1195 in H5F_open(): unable to open file
    major: File accessability
    minor: Unable to open file
  #002: H5FD.c line 1088 in H5FD_open(): open failed
    major: Virtual File Layer
    minor: Unable to initialize object
HDF5-DIAG: Error detected in HDF5 (1.8.5) HDF5-DIAG: Error detected in HDF5 
(1.8.5) HDF5-DIAG: Error detected in HDF5 (1.8.5)   #003: H5FDmpio.c line 999 
in H5FD_mpio_open(): MPI_File_open failed
MPI-process 3MPI-process 6    major: Internal error (too specific to document 
in detail)
HDF5-DIAG: Error detected in HDF5 (1.8.5) :
HDF5-DIAG: Error detected in HDF5 (1.8.5) MPI-process 7HDF5-DIAG: Error 
detected in HDF5 (1.8.5) MPI-process 2:
:
  #000: H5F.c line 1495 in H5Fopen(): unable to open file
    minor: Some MPI function failed
  #000: H5F.c line 1495 in H5Fopen(): unable to open file
  #000: H5F.c line 1495 in H5Fopen(): unable to open file
    major: File accessability
    major: File accessability

I also attach the whole standard error.

I will appreciate any help! Do not hesitate to ask me some additional details 
if needed!

Thanks,

Best regards,

Stephane



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