Folks, I came up with a feature, which does not seem quite appropriate to go into the MTT trunk, but is still possibly useful for someone other than me. I have posted a note about it on the MTT wiki:
http://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/mtt/wiki/EmailTimeoutNotification Here's the text of the Wiki page: We (Sun) were trying to track down a hang in an MPI test that we were seeing in our MTT runs which was difficult to reproduce manually. The problem is that MTT kills the hanging process before a developer has a chance to investigate the issue. To address this, I patched an MTT client (see attached patch file) to send out a notification email containing an mpirun command line and GDB back trace for the hanging test. A predefined sentinel file is touched, which can later be removed to force MTT to move on and continue testing. Here are the INI parameters to activate the timeout email notification: * {{{docommand_timeout_sentinel_file}}} * {{{docommand_timeout_email_recipient}}} Example usage: {{{ $ client/mtt --scratch /foo/bar --file foo.ini docommand_timeout_sentinel_file=/tmp/mtt-timeout-sentinel-file-\&random_string\(10\) docommand_timeout_email_recipient=fred.flints...@sun.com,barney.rub...@sun.com }}} -Ethan
