FWIW:
1. A little googling before asking on a public mailing list is always
a Good Thing(tm), even for a "noob". :-)
2. The reason that some LAM questions go unanswered for a while
usually involves one or more of the following factors (not all apply
here -- just trying to share our thought processes):
- The question has been asked several (many?) times before, such
that a little googling would give you the answer.
- The question is obviously a homework problem (we don't answer
these at all).
- The question is not for LAM/MPI (e.g., it's for another MPI
implementation -- like this question)
- The question is complicated and will take some time to research
and come up with a Correct answer.
- We are spending 99% of our time these days on Open MPI. LAM/
MPI is quite definitely in a maintenance mode, so LAM questions are
definitely a lower priority (we've been quite open about this). We
do our best, but please remember that our bosses pay us for working
on other things -- LAM work is all a spare-time kind of endeavor.
Please bear with us. LAM users have been *very* supportive in
helping common questions, and we are *EXTREMELY* grateful.
In particular, I want to stress that #1 can save you much time.
Googling for the error message on this thread, for example, shows
many many MPICH references -- no LAM references (the "p4" shown in
the error message is a subsystem of MPICH, not LAM/MPI).
Specifically: this user is clearly using MPICH, not LAM/MPI. So we
can't help, anyway. I would suggest checking the MPICH documentation
and/or mailing the MPICH support lists.
Good luck!
On Feb 5, 2007, at 11:59 AM, Faisal Iqbal wrote:
> Dear R.
> As i said i'm a new one here, so i had no way but "hasty
> generalization" for my thoughts. And one week isn't a hasty thing :P
>
> anyways what i mean to say is that instead of not replying to the
> mail at all, any senior member should point out the error in mail
> or ask the person look at some particular place e.g. FAQ. That's a
> lot better than ignoring the person.
> I got the reply to my mail and faiz got one too and I appreciate
> Mr. Prins for it :)
>
> I hope I'll have a pleasant experience with this forum, as you had.
>
> Regards,
> Faisal
>
> Ramon Diaz-Uriarte <rdiaz_at_[hidden]> wrote: Dear Faisal,
>
> On Sunday 04 February 2007 15:55, Faisal Iqbal wrote:
> > Nobody helps "noobs" here, u have to try and search the result
> yourself or
> > find some other resource.
>
>
> This is definitely just not true. In fact, from the very link you
> post you can
> see several threads with questions and answers. (Myself, I have
> received very
> helpful advice with questions in this list and have answered one or
> two
> questions).
>
> > I posted a question a week ago and yet to get a
> > single reply.
> >
> > [http://www.lam-mpi.org/MailArchives/lam/2007/01/12933.php]
> >
>
> Not every question gets answered. There are many possible reasons
> for that;
> from nobody knowing the answer to your question, to your question
> not being
> well formulated, to your question making it obvious that key,
> simple steps
> were not taken, etc, etc, etc.
>
>
> Anyway, your email is unfair (and a classic example of the fallacy
> known
> as "hasty generalization").
>
>
> Best,
>
> R.
>
>
>
>
> > Help yourself mate! Thats all i can say :(
> >
> > Regards,
> > Faisal
> >
> > Muhammad Faiz Misman wrote: i try to run the mpi
> > program by typing this :
> >
> > mpirun -np 4 faiz
> >
> > but this error occured:
> >
> > p0_18085: p4_error: semget failed for setnum: 0
> >
> > please help me
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