Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: wjiang@apollo.hp.com (Weicheng Jiang)
Subject: Re: too many open files
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Chelmsford, MA
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 19:45:04 GMT
Message-ID: <E0q1J5.E9x@apollo.hp.com>

In article <55rh3u$2hg@nnrp3.farm.idt.net>,
Gerard C Blais  <simul8r@haven.ios.com> wrote:
>I'm a novice.  I'm trying to run on a University Sun PVM implementation.
>I can run hell <-> hello_other just fine.  I can run master1 (and slave1)
>just fine, for 1 thru 4 slaves.  PVM chunks out tons of error messages if
>I try for more slaves: a recv() fails, and there are too many open files.
>I saw a FAQ that said to use ipcrm to delete shared memoey segments == so
>I looked at ipcs, had some, deleted them, to no avail.  Any thoughts?

You may need to increase the system limit on the maximum number of shared-
memory segments. Take a look at the pvm3/Readme.mp file.
-- 
Weicheng Jiang, Ph.D.            Internet Technology Lab
PVM Specialist                   Internet Technology Group
Tel: 508-436-4613                Hewlett-Packard Company

