From: Srinidhi <srinidhi@ece.neu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
Subject: Closing Spawned Jobs
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 13:53:56 -0500
Organization: Northeastern University, Boston, MA. 02115, USA
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Hi,

I suspect this should be a common problem and any help is appreciated.

I spawn off a series of jobs on different machines on the network using
"pvm_spawn" and when the job is completed, I send a termination message
and they exit gracefully without a problem. However, if I manually kill
the job on the master using "Control-C", the spawned jobs continue to
run and essentially after a while stay stuck on "pvm_recv()" but the job
does not terminate. Halting PVM and restarting the daemon does not do
the trick either. Is there a way to kill all spawned jobs, maybe from
the pvm console?

Thanks,
-Srinidhi