Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: Daniel Pfenniger <Daniel.Pfenniger@obs.unige.ch>
Subject: Re: PVM3.4beta6 on Linux
Organization: Geneva Observatory,  University of Geneva
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 09:07:54 +0200
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Travis S. Metcalfe wrote:
> 
> 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

Are the 30'000 slave precisely sending this message?  !!!

Dan