Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: jjiao@parallel.rutgers.edu (Jia Jiao)
Subject: PVM on DEC alpha (weird problem)
Organization: Rutgers University LCSR
Date: 21 Apr 1995 21:03:50 -0400
Message-ID: <3n9klm$dbl@parallel.rutgers.edu>


    I have been using PVM on SUNs for a while, and it works fine.
But recently I installed version 3.3.7 (suppose to be the lastest)
on a DEC alpha machine, and found it having strange problems

  The problem is as follows: First start pvm daemon, it started ok,
Then things break when I try to run an example (which is one of standard
example in the package: master1.f and slave1.f (which are master -slave
code.) It just got stuck and not even a message.   

   After  killing the example by control-c, even the pvm daemon is having
problem: if I type pvm , there is no response... (normally should
show "pvmd already running."   ) However the pvmd process is still there
if I do a ps. The only way to get out of this is to kill the process
and restart PVM, but then the example still breaks,and the daemon fails
again after that....

  I really could not figure out why. Can anyone give a hint?
this only happens on the ALPHA machine, never on the SUNs.

