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From: Per Madsen (Per.Madsen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-12-18 10:07:17


Hello
 
I have now installed lam 7.0.3, but I am still getting the same error
 
Per Madsen

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        Fra: Jeff Squyres [mailto:jsquyres_at_[hidden]]
        Sendt: on 17-12-2003 19:30
        Til: General LAM/MPI mailing list
        Cc:
        Emne: Re: LAM: mpirun (set_stdio): Too many open files in system
        
        

        On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Per Madsen wrote:
        
> I’m trying to run a parallel application with mpirun and lam 6.5.9.
> and I’m getting the following error messages:
>
> mpirun (set_stdio): Too many open files in system
>
> The application I’m running is a little special as it consists of a
> parallel main task for a iterative solver for solving a large system of
> equations (dimension up to ~300.000.000). After some iterations in the
> main task, the master processor make a system call in order to start a
> parallel subtask by mpirun on the same nodes as the main task The
> subtask manipulates the data used in the main task. When the subtask has
> completed, the main task is resumed. When I run this application on 16
> nodes, the error occurs after 18 successful invocation of the subtask.
        
        We fixed a file descriptor leak in the lamd in version 7.0 that *may* be
        the source of your problem.
        
        Is there any chance that you could download the latest (7.0.3) and give
        your application a whirl with it?
        
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