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From: Paul H. Hargrove (PHHargrove_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-10-08 14:15:37


Brian Barrett wrote:
> On Oct 8, 2007, at 11:57 AM, Ben Held wrote:
>
>> I have a need to run around 100 processes per node on a small Linux
>> cluster running LAM 7.1 I can only seem to run about 40 – after
>> that it just fails. Although I have not seen an error about too
>> many file descriptors, I did increase this limit by a factor of 8
>> and no luck.
>>
>> Does LAM have a built in limit? Can it be overridden?
>>
>>
>
> Yes, there is a built-in limit. We have not experimented with making
> it larger, and the only way to override it is to change some magic
> defines I can't recall at this time. So overriding the limit is both
> unsupported and not recommended.
>
>
> Good luck,
>
> Brian
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IIRC, the limit is in the lamd's management of its children. If so,
might it be possible to "trick" lamboot into starting multiple lamd's
per node to circumvent this?

-Paul

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Paul H. Hargrove                          PHHargrove_at_[hidden]
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