[mpich-discuss] illegal ioctl

Lu, Huiwei huiweilu at mcs.anl.gov
Sun Apr 20 10:12:51 CDT 2014


I would suggest the first place you check is some data structures that expand as the number of MPI processes increases.

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Huiwei

On Apr 20, 2014, at 10:08 AM, Hans-Joachim Werner <werner at theochem.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:

> Thanks. Yes, most likely it runs out of some system resources. It happens independently
> of the other memory the job needs. We use Global Arrays with MPI, and the problem happens
> in ga_put (one-sided write to a global array). We can also run it with pure MPI, and the 
> same problem occurs (it’s not SHMMAX). The application is the Molpro quantum chemistry program.
> Joachim Werner
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> Am 20.04.2014 um 16:52 schrieb Lu, Huiwei <huiweilu at mcs.anl.gov>:
> 
>> It’s possible your system is running out of memory or other system resources that cause the MPI job to abort.
>> 
>>>> Huiwei Lu
>> Postdoc Appointee
>> Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
>> http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~huiweilu/
>> 
>> On Apr 20, 2014, at 9:49 AM, Balaji, Pavan <balaji at anl.gov> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> This is not an MPICH problem.  It means that your application is asking MPICH to kill it using “MPI_Abort”.
>>> 
>>> — Pavan
>>> 
>>> On Apr 20, 2014, at 7:48 AM, Hans-Joachim Werner <werner at theochem.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On my system large jobs die with messages like this:
>>>> 
>>>> Last System Error Message from Task 3:: Inappropriate ioctl for device
>>>> application called MPI_Abort(comm=0x84000004, 11) - process 3
>>>> 
>>>> Does anybody know how this can be avoided? Maybe a stack overflow?
>>>> 
>>>> Joachim Werner
>>>> 
>>>> 
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