Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: schmitz@ro.coma.sbg.ac.at (Peter Schmitzberger)
Subject: Re: PVM on OSF/1 cluster
Organization: Computing Services, University of Salzburg
Date: 4 Mar 1996 10:01:39 GMT
Message-ID: <4hef23$hgc@dwst13.wst.edvz.sbg.ac.at>

Ed Blosch (elblosc@ca.sandia.gov) wrote:
> I'm having a problem with "halt" at the PVM console not killing
> off the processes.  I'm running on a cluster of DEC Alpha
> workstations.  When the answers look bad I'd like to kill the
> processes which have been spawned by my host program (not
> spawned at the console).  On all other types of machines I've
> used, typing "halt" at the console does the trick.  On the
> Alphas, the processes keep running and I have kill -9 them
> manually.  Anybody know if this is my problem or PVM's?  How
> does "halt" attempt to kill spawned processes?


Are your programs written in FORTRAN or C? I once had the same problem 
occuring after an upgrade of the OS. As far as I remember the problem was 
some version of the FORTRAN runtime library. I don't remember the
version number and maybe I'm blaming the wrong, but this could give
you a point to start.

Peter

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