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From: Jeff Squyres (jsquyres_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-10-20 06:34:35

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On Oct 19, 2004, at 5:32 PM, zfarkas_at_[hidden] wrote:

> I'm experimenting with checkpointing using the 'self' module. I'd
> like to know
> if I can be sure that the message queues are empty (no messages are
> being
> transferred on the network) when the running MPI processes get singal
> SIGUSR1.

No, you cannot. You can only be sure that no messages will be lost
upon restart.

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