From: lindahl@cs.virginia.edu (Greg Lindahl)
Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi
Subject: Re: WMPI (p4 transport) process consume CPU when waiting ... how
    to wait passively?
Date: 10 Dec 1998 18:51:56 GMT
Organization: a guest of Shadow Island Games
Message-Id: <74p58c$781@news1.newsguy.com>
References: <74ohp1$g5n2@puligny.idt.cdc.fr>


"Alain Coetmeur" <alain.coetmeur@icdc.caissedesdepots.fr> writes:

> don't esitate to tell me what is done on unix with MPI-CH or p4 also,
> since I can try to transpose it to WMPI/p4 on NT...

The ch_p4 device on Unix also does a polling loop, and will happily
consume all your CPU even when nothing is going on.

-- g