Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: fredb@cs.mun.ca (Fred Michael Boulos)
Subject: Problems with pvm3.3.11 on Sol 2.4
Keywords: Solaris 2.4
Organization: CS Dept., Memorial University of Newfoundland
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 13:14:08 GMT
Message-ID: <1996Jun27.131408.12527@cs.mun.ca>

Hello all,

   I am using a sparc20 with 2 CPUs running Solaris 2.4. I am using pvm
version 3.3.11 and am receiving the following problem:

  Upon running the 5 sample problems included in the $PVMROOT/examples
directory only 2 succeed: hello and timing.

  When running the programs gexample and master I get
the same type of error:

 "libpvm [t4000b]: peer_conn() shmat to t4000f: Too many open files "

When running master1: this error repeatedly ocurrs and finally ends with a core
dump on a segmentation fault.

When running gexample: we get the above mentioned error repeatedly after
running the program with the following, or anything higher, arguments:
   input dimensions = 4
   number of tasks  = 5
however, there is no problem with anything lower.

When running spmd: all processes are started but then there is no CPU activity
whatsoever and the process does nothing after outputting the message
          "me = 0 mytid = 262186"

When all the sample programs run on a sparc20 running SunOS 4.1.4 there is
no problem at all.

Any ideas, comments, suggestions welcome.

Thank you kindly,
 fredb@cs.mun.ca

