Re: [OMPI devel] System V Shared Memory for Open MPI:Request for Community Input and Testing

2010-05-04 Thread N.M. Maclaren
On May 4 2010, Terry Dontje wrote: Ralph Castain wrote: Is a configure-time test good enough? For example, are all Linuxes the same in this regard. That is if you built OMPI on RH and it configured in the new SysV SM will those bits actually run on other Linux systems correctly? I think

Re: [OMPI devel] System V Shared Memory for Open MPI:Request for Community Input and Testing

2010-05-04 Thread Ralph Castain
On May 4, 2010, at 7:56 AM, Terry Dontje wrote: > Ralph Castain wrote: >> >> >> On May 4, 2010, at 3:45 AM, Terry Dontje wrote: >> >>> Is a configure-time test good enough? For example, are all Linuxes the >>> same in this regard. That is if you built OMPI on RH and it configured in >>>

Re: [OMPI devel] System V Shared Memory for Open MPI:Request for Community Input and Testing

2010-05-04 Thread Terry Dontje
Ralph Castain wrote: On May 4, 2010, at 3:45 AM, Terry Dontje wrote: Is a configure-time test good enough? For example, are all Linuxes the same in this regard. That is if you built OMPI on RH and it configured in the new SysV SM will those bits actually run on other Linux systems

Re: [OMPI devel] System V Shared Memory for Open MPI:Request for Community Input and Testing

2010-05-04 Thread Ralph Castain
On May 4, 2010, at 3:45 AM, Terry Dontje wrote: > Is a configure-time test good enough? For example, are all Linuxes the same > in this regard. That is if you built OMPI on RH and it configured in the new > SysV SM will those bits actually run on other Linux systems correctly? I > think

Re: [OMPI devel] System V Shared Memory for Open MPI:Request for Community Input and Testing

2010-05-04 Thread N.M. Maclaren
On May 4 2010, Terry Dontje wrote: Is a configure-time test good enough? For example, are all Linuxes the same in this regard. That is if you built OMPI on RH and it configured in the new SysV SM will those bits actually run on other Linux systems correctly? I think Jeff had hinted to

Re: [OMPI devel] System V Shared Memory for Open MPI:Request for Community Input and Testing

2010-05-04 Thread Terry Dontje
Is a configure-time test good enough? For example, are all Linuxes the same in this regard. That is if you built OMPI on RH and it configured in the new SysV SM will those bits actually run on other Linux systems correctly? I think Jeff had hinted to this similarly when suggesting this may

Re: [OMPI devel] System V Shared Memory for Open MPI:Request for Community Input and Testing

2010-05-03 Thread Samuel K. Gutierrez
Hi All, New configure-time test added - thanks for the suggestion, Jeff. Update and give it a whirl. Ethan - could you please try again? This time, I'm hoping sysv support will be disabled ;-). Thanks! -- Samuel K. Gutierrez Los Alamos National Laboratory On May 3, 2010, at 9:18 AM,

Re: [OMPI devel] System V Shared Memory for Open MPI:Request for Community Input and Testing

2010-05-03 Thread N.M. Maclaren
On May 3 2010, Jeff Squyres wrote: Write a small C program that does something like the following (this is off the top of my head): fork a child child goes to sleep immediately sysv alloc a segment attach to it ipc rm it parent wakes up child child tries to attach to segment If that

Re: [OMPI devel] System V Shared Memory for Open MPI:Request for Community Input and Testing

2010-05-03 Thread Samuel K. Gutierrez
Hi Jeff, Sounds like a plan :-). Thanks! -- Samuel K. Gutierrez Los Alamos National Laboratory On May 3, 2010, at 9:12 AM, Jeff Squyres wrote: It might well be that you need a configure test to determine whether this behavior occurs or not. Heck, it may even need to be a run- time test!

Re: [OMPI devel] System V Shared Memory for Open MPI:Request for Community Input and Testing

2010-05-03 Thread Jeff Squyres
It might well be that you need a configure test to determine whether this behavior occurs or not. Heck, it may even need to be a run-time test! Hrm. Write a small C program that does something like the following (this is off the top of my head): fork a child child goes to sleep immediately