[mpich-discuss] discuss Digest, Vol 9, Issue 13

[Reem Alraddadi]

Hi Wesley.
I wrote the following:
mpirun --np 4 --env MPIR_PARAM_CTXID_EAGER_SIZE 1 ./flash4
but the error still the same. Did I do it in the wrong way??

Thanks,
Reem

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> Message: 5
> Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 08:14:48 -0500
> From: Wesley Bland <wbland at mcs.anl.gov>
> To: discuss at mpich.org
> Subject: Re: [mpich-discuss] mpich on Mac os x
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> It seems that you're creating more communicators than MPICH can handle.
> It's possible that you might be able to get around this by setting the
> environment variable MPIR_PARAM_CTXID_EAGER_SIZE to something smaller than
> its default (which is 2). That frees up a few more communicators, but there
> is a pathological case where even with fewer communicators than the max,
> MPICH won't be able to agree on a new communicator id when needed. Try
> changing that environment variable and see if that fixes things.
>
> Wesley
>
> On Jul 8, 2013, at 5:33 AM, Reem Alraddadi <raba500 at york.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> > I am using mpich-3.0.4 on Mac os x version 10.7.5 to run FLASH code. It
> works fine in the beginning of the run and then I got the following error:
> >
> > Fatal error in MPI_Comm_create: Other MPI error, error stack:
> > MPI_Comm_create(600).................: MPI_Comm_create(comm=0x84000002,
> group=0xc8001349, new_comm=0x7fff606a8614) failed
> > MPI_Comm_create(577).................:
> > MPIR_Comm_create_intra(241)..........:
> > MPIR_Get_contextid(799)..............:
> > MPIR_Get_contextid_sparse_group(1146):  Cannot allocate context ID
> because of fragmentation (169/2048 free on this process; ignore_id=0)
> > Fatal error in MPI_Comm_create: Other MPI error, error stack:
> > MPI_Comm_create(600).................: MPI_Comm_create(comm=0x84000002,
> group=0xc80012b6, new_comm=0x7fff670cc614) failed
> > MPI_Comm_create(577).................:
> > MPIR_Comm_create_intra(241)..........:
> > MPIR_Get_contextid(799)..............:
> > MPIR_Get_contextid_sparse_group(1146):  Cannot allocate context ID
> because of fragmentation (316/2048 free on this process; ignore_id=0)
> > Fatal error in MPI_Comm_create: Other MPI error, error stack:
> > MPI_Comm_create(600).................: MPI_Comm_create(comm=0x84000004,
> group=0xc800000e, new_comm=0x7fff629d5614) failed
> > MPI_Comm_create(577).................:
> > MPIR_Comm_create_intra(241)..........:
> > MPIR_Get_contextid(799)..............:
> > MPIR_Get_contextid_sparse_group(1146):  Cannot allocate context ID
> because of fragmentation (2020/2048 free on this process; ignore_id=0)
> > Fatal error in MPI_Comm_create: Other MPI error, error stack:
> > MPI_Comm_create(600).................: MPI_Comm_create(comm=0x84000002,
> group=0xc8000020, new_comm=0x7fff639ae614) failed
> > MPI_Comm_create(577).................:
> > MPIR_Comm_create_intra(241)..........:
> > MPIR_Get_contextid(799)..............:
> > MPIR_Get_contextid_sparse_group(1146):  Cannot allocate context ID
> because of fragmentation (2002/2048 free on this process; ignore_id=0
> >
> > Is there a way to fix that ?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Reem
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