Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: zhou@icarus.epm.ornl.gov (Honbo Zhou)
Subject: Re: RouteDirect
Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 1994 12:53:51 GMT
Message-ID: <1994Jun15.125351.12129@ornl.gov>

In article <2tmf4d$rv6@nef.ens.fr> you write:
>Just try with the programs timing and timing_slave of the
>distribution and you will obtain:
>
>~/pvm3/bin/SUN4/timing
>i'm t40001
>libpvm [t40001]: mxfer() setsockopt: Option not supported by protocol
>slave is task t40002
>...

This problem is caused by introducing Unix domain sockets between 
pvmd and local tasks to improve performance (1.5-2x as much faster as the 
old pvmd-task message passing). 

The application should work fine, so you may just ignore it. 

This problem will be fixed in the future release.

Honbo
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Honbo Zhou (Ph. D.),   (615) 481-8354 (H), 576-6129 (O)
Engineerin, Physics, and Mathematics Division  ---- PVM
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6367

