Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: patton@phy.uab.edu (David Clay Patton)
Subject: Re: the mad fools, when will they learn
Organization: University of Alabama at Birmingham
Date: 28 Sep 1995 15:13:11 GMT
Message-ID: <44ee27$ana@maze.dpo.uab.edu>

Gary Wayne Hayner (gwh106) wrote:
: In using pvm3.3.1, I ran into a problem crashing one of my child processes.
  I
: get a message in the pvml file saying

: biteme() caught message 33 and spaced it
: the mad fools, when will they learn?

: Has anyone ever seen this before?  The message is found in the file pvm.c,
 but
: I am not a c programmer and have no idea what could be causing this nor 
how to
: fix it.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

: Gary Hayner
: Nuclear Engineering
: The Pennsylvania State University

Give us an email address nexttime, your newsreader isnt configured right?
Thanks. Here is reply I wanted to email... Hopefully others will have more
informative info for you...

I have seen this message many times. Not too informative, but very humorous.
It always occured when I was running on a RS6K machine on which many other
processes were running simultaneously. I believe it reflects something with
a shortage of memory.
Try reducing your message sizes or running on less loaded machines...

--
David Clay Patton


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David Clay Patton

