Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: manchek@thud.cs.utk.edu (Bob Manchek)
Subject: Re: PVM 3.3.[78] on RS/6000 problem
Keywords: Help me, I'm going insane
Organization: Computer Science Dept, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Date: 4 Oct 1995 15:06:25 GMT
Message-ID: <44u7tiINN3p7@CS.UTK.EDU>

In article <44rnm2$kdd@taco.cc.ncsu.edu>, easchwei@unity.ncsu.edu (Eric) writes:
|> I just tried the 3.3.9 version of PVM and it still has problems on AIX
|> and works fine under Ultrix.  The spawn code seems highly sensative to
|> the physical size of the binary it is spawning.  Perhaps the bug is in
|> AIX.  We have version 3.2.

Huh.  It looks like the connect-to-the-pvmd code in libpvm is creating
hundreds of files (it uses a file for authentication with the pvmd).
I don't see any way to get the code to do that, though.  There are lots
of people using all these versions on AIX, so it's nothing obvious.

Do the example programs work on your machine?  Do you have a short program
that fails like this that you can post/send to me?

-b
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