Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: wjiang@apollo.hp.com (Weicheng Jiang)
Subject: Re: Help: How to adjust shared buffer size in PVM?
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Chelmsford, MA
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 19:08:22 GMT
Message-ID: <DwI55z.5x4@apollo.hp.com>

In article <4vbu8v$2u6@hpg30a.csc.cuhk.edu.hk>,
Yuen Pui Ho  <s935715@mailserv.cuhk.edu.hk> wrote:
>    I am writting a program which necessary to transfer a very vector(size of 
>~4M) between different machine in the network. When I try one with only the 
>size of 200000 (a double precision array). PVM just display:
>
>libpvm [t40003]: da_new() Warning: shared buffer full, using malloc
>libpvm [t40003]: peer_send() Message(s) too long for shared buffer, deadlocked.
>
>and hang up. Is there any way to increase the size of "shared buffer"? Or is 

Yes. setenv PVMBUFSIZE ... (refer to the pvm3/Readme.mp file for details).


-- 
Weicheng Jiang, Ph.D.            Chelmsford System Software Lab.
PVM Specialist                   Network Computing Division
Tel: 508-436-4613                Hewlett-Packard Company

