Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: "Travis S. Metcalfe" <travis@astro.as.utexas.edu>
Subject: PVM3.4beta6 on Linux
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 15:42:27 +0000
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I am running PVM3.4beta6 and my code crashes after about 30,000 slave
jobs have been spawned. This happens on both Sparc/Solaris and
Intel/Linux systems. The same code ran flawlessly under PVM3.3.11 on the
Sparcs.

It looks like the memory is filling up -- the error code for the crash
says "out of resources", and when I look at the system resources right
before the crash, the 128 M physical memory is essentially full and a
bunch of swap is being used.

Seems like there may be some "malloc" calls without corresponding "free"
statements. Has anyone else seen this problem? Any idea how to fix it?

Thanks,

Travis