Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: Stuart D Blackburn <sdblackb@uncc.edu>
Subject: Re: Problem with PVM-3.3.7 and Solaris 2.4
Organization: University of NC at Charlotte
Date: 16 Apr 1995 00:28:27 GMT
Message-ID: <3mpobb$kcc@news.uncc.edu>

jcargill@grilled.cs.wisc.edu (Jon Cargille) wrote:
>
> 
> 
> I'm having a bit of trouble running PVM-3.3.7 on a Sparc
> multiprocessor (2 CPU) machine running Solaris 2.4.
> 
> The problem is that the PVM daemon never seems to reap children that
> have completed.  For example, when a pvm process has run to
> completion, it is still visible via the PVM console "ps" command; in
> fact, it's still hanging around as a zombie process.
> 
> Has anyone else seen this behavior?  Any idea what I can do to fix it?
> 
	Is the problem only with this one machine (or machine
type), or is does the same thing happen when this code is
compiled for and run on other architectures??

	My only thought is that pvm_exit() isn't functioning
properly somehow, but it is hard to believe that it alone would
cause all of these problems.

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