on most systems /dev/shm is limited to half the physical ram. Was the user someone filling up /dev/shm so there was no space?

Brock Palen
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Center for Advanced Computing
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On Nov 10, 2008, at 1:25 PM, Ray Muno wrote:

We are running OpenMPI 1.2.7. Now that we have been running for a while, we are getting messages of the sort.

node: Unable to allocate shared memory for intra-node messaging.
node: Delete stale shared memory files in /dev/shm.
MPI process terminated unexpectedly

If the user deletes the stale files, they can run.


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 Ray Muno
 University of Minnesota
 Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics

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