Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: wjiang@apollo.hp.com (Weicheng Jiang)
Subject: Re: Too many open files under Solaris?
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Chelmsford, MA
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 15:56:49 GMT
Message-ID: <Dz9wAp.A6n@apollo.hp.com>

In article <52boqt$msu@reznor.larc.nasa.gov>,
Dana Hammond <dana@cscsun3.larc.nasa.gov> wrote:
>I have been running a distributed application with PVM on Sun4.xx.
>The OS has been upgraded to Sun5.xx (Solaris).  I have installed
>PVM (3.3.10), recompiled, and began execution.  I am now getting
>the following errors.  A call to pvmgetarch returns SUNMP.
>Is there a file limit under Sun5 that was not under Sun4?
>
>libpvm [t40001]: peer_conn() shmat to t40007: Too many open files

dana,

    You need to increase the system limit on the max number of attached
shared-memory segments. The default on Sun SMPs is 6, allowing at most
5 PVM processes.



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

