Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: markc@poona.cs.wisc.edu (Mark Callaghan)
Subject: Distributing PVM spawns
Organization: University of WI, Madison -- Computer Sciences Dept.
Date: 27 Oct 1994 08:49:28 GMT
Message-ID: <38npio$3eb@spool.cs.wisc.edu>

PVM attempts to distribute processes on the "virtual machine" when
tasks are spawned.  However, it seems as though the machine on which
the first daemon is started will always have an extra task compared
to the other machines. 

A: {task, task, task}  <-- first pvm daemon started here
B: {task, task}        
C: {task}              <-- next task goes here

The next task goes to host C.  The task after the next task goes to
host A.  I would like to have each host listed above to have 
two tasks.  Is there a reason why the tasks are not distributed
evenly?

Mark
markc@cs.wisc.edu



