[mpich-discuss] Is there a way to set timeout to mpi process launch?

[Halim Amer]

You can try setting MPIEXEC_TIMEOUT=<timeout value in seconds> to force 
the job to abort after running for the specified period. This is for the 
whole execution though, not just for the process launching step.

Halim
www.mcs.anl.gov/~aamer

On 10/26/16 6:30 PM, Pranav Ladkat wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When I run mpi program on multiple hosts, if executable fails to start
> on any of the host (due to missing library etc. type of reasons), other
> hosts just keep waiting for the process to come up. The program just
> hangs forever. Is there any way to set a timeout in such cases such that
> MPI should abort if not all processes were launched in a given timeout
> period?
>
> Thanks,
> Pranav
>
>
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