Hi Guys,

I just checked this with 2 pvserver running on my 8 core workstation and I don't see it, I'm using mpich2-1.0.7. I have heard somewhere it's an issue specific with openmpi, not sure how true that rumor is though.

Burlen


Jens wrote:
Hi John,

thanks for your answer. That makes sense. "Normal" mpi-apps are probably
not written to wait for more things to do - they are simply always busy.

It is just a pity that the cluster has to run 100% producing a lot of
heat for nothing.

So the MPI-lib will probably not change this behavior :( ? (I am using
open-mpi 1.2.8)

Greetings
Jens


John M. Patchett schrieb:
Hi Jens,
  Your pvserver is probably waiting on an MPI_Recv and your MPI
implementation is spinning.
You will note that process 0 probably isn't doing this, as the other
nodes are waiting on process 0 to send.
I have searched this problem all the way to the MPI developers as it's
easy to replicate without paraview and the MPI guys assure me the
alternatives are worse.
-John.

On Dec 5, 2008, at 8:42 AM, Jens wrote:

Hi,

if I run "mpirun -np 4 ./pvserver" on our cluster-node and connect from
my client, this pvserver always shows 100% cpu usage - even if I do
nothing at the client.

Seems to me as if there is a loop waiting for the client to ask for
action - but this loop is calling no wait/sleep function.

Greetings
Jens
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