[mpich-discuss] MPI memory allocation.

Mon Dec 9 02:30:38 CST 2013

I configure MPICH-3.1rc2 build w/o "so" files. But instead of MPICH2 &
MPICH-3.0.4 I get so files. What should I change in configure line to link
MPI with my application statically.

On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 9:47 AM, Pavan Balaji <balaji at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

>
> Can you try mpich-3.1rc2?  There were several fixes for this in this
> version and it’ll be good to try that out before we go digging too far into
> this.
>
>   — Pavan
>
> On Dec 9, 2013, at 1:46 AM, Anatoly G <anatolyrishon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > With MPICH - 3.0.4 the situation repeated. It looks like MPI allocates
> memory for messages.
> > Can you please advice about scenario when MPI or may be TCP under MPI
> allocates memory due to high transfer rate?
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Anatoly G <anatolyrishon at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Thank you very much.
> > Issend - is not so good, It can't support me Fault tolerance. If slave
> process fails, the master stall.
> > I tried mpich-3.0.4 with hydra-3.0.4 but my program which uses MPI Fault
> tolerance doesn't recognize failure of slave process, but recognizes
> failure with MPICH2. May be you can suggest solution?
> > I tried to use hydra from MPICH2 but link my program with MPICH3. This
> combination recognizes failures, but I"m not sure that such combination is
> stable enough.
> > Can you please advice?
> > Anatoly.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Pavan Balaji <balaji at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> >
> > As much as I hate saying this — some people find it easier to think of
> it as “MPICH3”.
> >
> >   — Pavan
> >
> > On Dec 7, 2013, at 7:37 AM, Wesley Bland <wbland at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> >
> > > MPICH is just the new version of MPICH2. We renamed it when we went
> past version 3.0.
> > >
> > > On Dec 7, 2013, at 3:55 AM, Anatoly G <anatolyrishon at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Ok. I"ll try both Issend, and next step to upgrade MPICH to 3.0.4.
> > >> I thought before that MPICH & MPICH2 are two different branches, when
> MPICH2 partially supports Fault tolerance, but MPICH not. Now I understand,
> that I was wrong and MPICH2 is just main version of MPICH.
> > >>
> > >> Thank you very much,
> > >> Anatoly.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 11:01 PM, Rajeev Thakur <thakur at mcs.anl.gov>
> wrote:
> > >> The master is receiving too many incoming messages than it can match
> quickly enough with Irecvs. Try using MPI_Issend instead of MPI_Isend.
> > >>
> > >> Rajeev
> > >>
> > >> On Dec 5, 2013, at 2:58 AM, Anatoly G <anatolyrishon at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > Hello.
> > >> > I"m using MPICH2 1.5.
> > >> > My system contains master and 16 slaves.
> > >> > System uses number of communicators.
> > >> > The single communicator used for below scenario:
> > >> > Each slave sends non-stop 2Kbyte data buffer using MPI_Isend and
> waits using MPI_Wait.
> > >> > Master starts with MPI_Irecv to each slave
> > >> > Then in endless loop:
> > >> > MPI_Waitany and MPI_Irecv on rank returned by MPI_Waitany.
> > >> >
> > >> > Another communicator used for broadcast communication (commands
> between master + slaves),
> > >> > but it's not used in parallel with previous communicator,
> > >> > only before or after data transfer.
> > >> >
> > >> > The system executed on two computers linked by 1Gbit/s Ethernet.
> > >> > Master executed on first computer, all slaves on other one.
> > >> > Network traffic is ~800Mbit/s.
> > >> >
> > >> > After 1-2 minutes of execution, master process starts to increase
> it's memory allocation and network traffic becomes low.
> > >> > This memory allocation & network traffic slow down continues until
> fail of MPI,
> > >> > without core file save.
> > >> > My program doesn't allocate memory. Can you please explain this
> behaviour.
> > >> > How can I cause MPI to stop sending slaves if Master can't serve
> such traffic, instead of memory allocation and fail?
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> > Thank you,
> > >> > Anatoly.
> > >> >
> > >> > P.S.
> > >> > On my stand alone test, I simulate similar behaviour, but with
> single thread on each process (master & hosts).
> > >> > When I start stand alone test, master stops slaves until it
> completes accumulated data processing and MPI doesn't increase memory
> allocation.
> > >> > When Master is free slaves continue to send data.
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