Re: [OMPI users] Segmentation fault during MPI initialization

2012-04-24 Thread Jeffrey Squyres
That's very odd, indeed -- it's listed as being inside MPI_INIT, but we don't get any further details from there. :-\ Any chance you could try upgrading to OMPI 1.4.5 and/or 1.5.5? On Apr 24, 2012, at 1:57 PM, Jeffrey A Cummings wrote: > I've been having an intermittent failure during MPI

Re: [OMPI users] Segmentation fault during MPI initialization

2012-04-24 Thread Gus Correa
Hi Jeffrey Assuming you are on Linux, a frequent cause of out-of-nowhere segfaults is a limited/small stack size. They can happen if you [ab]use big automatic arrays, etc. You can set the stacksize bigger/unlimited with the ulimit/limit command, or edit the /etc/security/limits.conf. Of

[OMPI users] Segmentation fault during MPI initialization

2012-04-24 Thread Jeffrey A Cummings
I've been having an intermittent failure during MPI initialization (v 1.4.3) for several months. It comes and goes as I make changes to my application, that is changes unrelated to MPI calls. Even when I have a version of my app which shows the problem, it doesn't happen on every submittal.