Yes, that does sound like a bug - the #connects must equal the #disconnects.


> On Jun 4, 2018, at 1:17 PM, marcin.krotkiewski <marcin.krotkiew...@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> huh. This code also runs, but it also only displays 4 connect / disconnect 
> messages. I should add that the test R script shows 4 connect, but 8 
> disconnect messages. Looks like a bug to me, but where? I guess we will try 
> to contact R forums and ask there.
> Bennet: I tried to use doMPI + startMPIcluster / closeCluster. In this case I 
> get a warning about fork being used:
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> A process has executed an operation involving a call to the
> "fork()" system call to create a child process.  Open MPI is currently
> operating in a condition that could result in memory corruption or
> other system errors; your job may hang, crash, or produce silent
> data corruption.  The use of fork() (or system() or other calls that
> create child processes) is strongly discouraged.
> 
> The process that invoked fork was:
> 
>   Local host:          [[36000,2],1] (PID 23617)
> 
> If you are *absolutely sure* that your application will successfully
> and correctly survive a call to fork(), you may disable this warning
> by setting the mpi_warn_on_fork MCA parameter to 0.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> And the process hangs as well - no change.
> Marcin
> 
> 
> On 06/04/2018 05:27 PM, r...@open-mpi.org <mailto:r...@open-mpi.org> wrote:
>> It might call disconnect more than once if it creates multiple 
>> communicators. Here’s another test case for that behavior:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Jun 4, 2018, at 7:08 AM, Bennet Fauber <ben...@umich.edu> 
>>> <mailto:ben...@umich.edu> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Just out of curiosity, but would using Rmpi and/or doMPI help in any way?
>>> 
>>> -- bennet
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 10:00 AM, marcin.krotkiewski
>>> <marcin.krotkiew...@gmail.com> <mailto:marcin.krotkiew...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Thanks, Ralph!
>>>> 
>>>> Your code finishes normally, I guess then the reason might be lying in R.
>>>> Running the R code with -mca pmix_base_verbose 1 i see that each rank calls
>>>> ext2x:client disconnect twice (each PID prints the line twice)
>>>> 
>>>> [...]
>>>>    3 slaves are spawned successfully. 0 failed.
>>>> [localhost.localdomain:11659] ext2x:client disconnect
>>>> [localhost.localdomain:11661] ext2x:client disconnect
>>>> [localhost.localdomain:11658] ext2x:client disconnect
>>>> [localhost.localdomain:11646] ext2x:client disconnect
>>>> [localhost.localdomain:11658] ext2x:client disconnect
>>>> [localhost.localdomain:11659] ext2x:client disconnect
>>>> [localhost.localdomain:11661] ext2x:client disconnect
>>>> [localhost.localdomain:11646] ext2x:client disconnect
>>>> 
>>>> In your example it's only called once per process.
>>>> 
>>>> Do you have any suspicion where the second call comes from? Might this be
>>>> the reason for the hang?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks!
>>>> 
>>>> Marcin
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 06/04/2018 03:16 PM, r...@open-mpi.org <mailto:r...@open-mpi.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Try running the attached example dynamic code - if that works, then it
>>>> likely is something to do with how R operates.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Jun 4, 2018, at 3:43 AM, marcin.krotkiewski
>>>> <marcin.krotkiew...@gmail.com> <mailto:marcin.krotkiew...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> I have some problems running R + Rmpi with OpenMPI 3.1.0 + PMIx 2.1.1. A
>>>> simple R script, which starts a few tasks, hangs at the end on diconnect.
>>>> Here is the script:
>>>> 
>>>> library(parallel)
>>>> numWorkers <- as.numeric(Sys.getenv("SLURM_NTASKS")) - 1
>>>> myCluster <- makeCluster(numWorkers, type = "MPI")
>>>> stopCluster(myCluster)
>>>> 
>>>> And here is how I run it:
>>>> 
>>>> SLURM_NTASKS=5 mpirun -np 1 -mca pml ^yalla -mca mtl ^mxm -mca coll ^hcoll 
>>>> R
>>>> --slave < mk.R
>>>> 
>>>> Notice -np 1 - this is apparently how you start Rmpi jobs: ranks are 
>>>> spawned
>>>> by R dynamically inside the script. So I ran into a number of issues here:
>>>> 
>>>> 1. with HPCX it seems that dynamic starting of ranks is not supported, 
>>>> hence
>>>> I had to turn off all of yalla/mxm/hcoll
>>>> 
>>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> Your application has invoked an MPI function that is not supported in
>>>> this environment.
>>>> 
>>>>  MPI function: MPI_Comm_spawn
>>>>  Reason:       the Yalla (MXM) PML does not support MPI dynamic process
>>>> functionality
>>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> 
>>>> 2. when I do that, the program does create a 'cluster' and starts the 
>>>> ranks,
>>>> but hangs in PMIx at MPI Disconnect. Here is the top of the trace from gdb:
>>>> 
>>>> #0  0x00007f66b1e1e995 in pthread_cond_wait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 
>>>> <mailto:pthread_cond_wait@@GLIBC_2.3.2> () from
>>>> /lib64/libpthread.so.0
>>>> #1  0x00007f669eaeba5b in PMIx_Disconnect (procs=procs@entry=0x2e25d20,
>>>> nprocs=nprocs@entry=10, info=info@entry=0x0, ninfo=ninfo@entry=0) at
>>>> client/pmix_client_connect.c:232
>>>> #2  0x00007f669ed6239c in ext2x_disconnect (procs=0x7ffd58322440) at
>>>> ext2x_client.c:1432
>>>> #3  0x00007f66a13bc286 in ompi_dpm_disconnect (comm=0x2cc0810) at
>>>> dpm/dpm.c:596
>>>> #4  0x00007f66a13e8668 in PMPI_Comm_disconnect (comm=0x2cbe058) at
>>>> pcomm_disconnect.c:67
>>>> #5  0x00007f66a16799e9 in mpi_comm_disconnect () from
>>>> /cluster/software/R-packages/3.5/Rmpi/libs/Rmpi.so
>>>> #6  0x00007f66b2563de5 in do_dotcall () from
>>>> /cluster/software/R/3.5.0/lib64/R/lib/libR.so
>>>> #7  0x00007f66b25a207b in bcEval () from
>>>> /cluster/software/R/3.5.0/lib64/R/lib/libR.so
>>>> #8  0x00007f66b25b0fd0 in Rf_eval.localalias.34 () from
>>>> /cluster/software/R/3.5.0/lib64/R/lib/libR.so
>>>> #9  0x00007f66b25b2c62 in R_execClosure () from
>>>> /cluster/software/R/3.5.0/lib64/R/lib/libR.so
>>>> 
>>>> Might this also be related to the dynamic rank creation in R?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks!
>>>> 
>>>> Marcin
>>>> 
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