From: wrankin@cerberus.ee.duke.edu (William T. Rankin)
Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
Subject: Re: Closing Spawned Jobs
Date: 24 Nov 1998 13:14:08 -0500
Organization: Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
Message-Id: <73et1g$9qi$1@cerberus.ee.duke.edu>
References: <3655BAC3.1B721E81@ece.neu.edu>
    <365ACBB5.39AC12D4@soc.staffs.ac.uk>


In article <365ACBB5.39AC12D4@soc.staffs.ac.uk>,
Tim Cockle  <T.Cockle@soc.staffs.ac.uk> wrote:

>> 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?

hmm, howabout using the 'reset' command at the console prompt.  or, 
for those of us who love the command line:

   echo reset | pvm

-b


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