Since /tmp is mounted across a network and /dev/shm is (always) local,
/dev/shm seems to be the right place for shared memory transactions.
If you create temporary files using mktemp is it being created in
/dev/shm or /tmp?


On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Bogdan Costescu <bcoste...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 15:54, Blosch, Edwin L <edwin.l.blo...@lmco.com> wrote:
>> -    /dev/shm is 12 GB and has 755 permissions
>> ...
>> % ls –l output:
>>
>> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root         40 Oct 28 09:14 shm
>
> This is your problem: it should be something like drwxrwxrwt. It might
> depend on the distribution, f.e. the following show this to be a bug:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=533897
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=317329
>
> and surely you can find some more on the subject with your favorite
> search engine. Another source could be a paranoid sysadmin who has
> changed the default (most likely correct) setting the distribution
> came with - not only OpenMPI but any application using shmem would be
> affected..
>
> Cheers,
> Bogdan
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