Yeah it was a serparate issue, glad it was found though.

Wrt moses, can you confirm which revision of Moses you have?

Regards,
Oliver

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 05:57:33PM +0100, Alexander Fraser wrote:
> Hi Oliver --
> 
> No worries, I don't actually use querylm, I just wanted a minimally
> reproducible problem; sounds like I instead found a second problem :-)
> 
> When I build Moses single threaded, with single threaded RandLM,
> everything works fine.
> 
> When I build Moses multi threaded, with multi threaded RandLM, then I
> get a core dump if I try to use a RandLM. This occurs after it prints:
> 
> Start loading phrase table from
> /mount/corpora12/d5/statmt/fraser/experiments/0022/1000_INFLECT3_WMT2009_en_de/gdfa_noclosure/tuning_lm_parallel_RANDLM/filtered/phrase-table.0-0.1.1
> : [0.000] seconds
> 
> The same multi-threaded binary built with multi-threaded RandLM works
> fine with KenLM with 6 threads (only change in moses.ini is the Ken LM
> line).
> 
> Let me know if you need some kind of debug output.
> 
> Cheers, Alex
> 
> 
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Oliver Wilson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi Alex,
> >
> > The problem you are experiencing with the querylm utility is down to an
> > oversight on my part. Compiling with threading support requires you to
> > init caches etc on RandLM instances which I didn't do for querylm. I'm
> > working on a fix now and will mail you off list when it's done.
> >
> > Are you still experiencing problems when using multithreaded RandLM from
> > within moses?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Oliver
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 03:58:46PM +0100, Alexander Fraser wrote:
> >> Hi Miles,
> >>
> >> Thanks a lot for releasing a version of RandLM which supports
> >> multi-threading. I'd very much like to use it together with Moses, but
> >> am having significant problems.
> >>
> >>
> >> Although I initially noticed the problem with Moses, I was able to
> >> reproduce it using basic functionality:
> >>
> >> R=randlm_v0.20_no_threads
> >>
> >> echo "This is a test of the emergency broadcast system ." | $R/buildlm
> >> -order 5 -struct BloomMap -falsepos 8 -values 8 -output-prefix model
> >> -tmp-dir .
> >>
> >> echo "This is a test of" > tmp_kill2
> >>
> >> $R/querylm -randlm model.BloomMap -test-path tmp_kill2 -test-type
> >> ngrams -order 5
> >>
> >> [works fine]
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> R=randlm_v0.20_threads
> >>
> >> echo "This is a test of the emergency broadcast system ." | $R/buildlm
> >> -order 5 -struct BloomMap -falsepos 8 -values 8 -output-prefix model
> >> -tmp-dir .
> >>
> >> echo "This is a test of" > tmp_kill2
> >>
> >> $R/querylm -randlm model.BloomMap -test-path tmp_kill2 -test-type
> >> ngrams -order 5
> >>
> >> [dumps core - if you do this in gdb, and do a backtrace
> >>
> >> #0 ?0x000000000043633b in randlm::RandLMHashCache::check(unsigned int
> >> const*, int, float*, void const**) ()
> >> #1 ?0x000000000042440e in
> >> randlm::StupidBackoffRandLM::getProb(unsigned int const*, int, int*,
> >> void const**) ()
> >> #2 ?0x0000000000404bb6 in randlm::RandLMQuery::query() ()
> >> #3 ?0x0000000000409fd6 in main ()
> >>
> >> ]
> >>
> >>
> >> I built randlm on a linux machine that has boost 1.44 installed
> >> (presumably with the linux distribution; note that this is not in my
> >> home directory as I was doing over the weekend if you happened to see
> >> those emails with Barry). For the no threads version, I made no
> >> changes to the Makefile. For the threads version I used these two
> >> lines (note that the first one is slightly changed from your commented
> >> out lines, with "-mt" added).
> >>
> >> LDFLAGS+=-lboost_thread-mt
> >> DEFS+=-DMULTITHREADED
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks for your help.
> >>
> >> Cheers, Alex
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> >>
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