From: Srinidhi <srinidhi@ece.neu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
Subject: Spawning from a spawned process
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 13:57:12 -0500
Organization: Northeastern University, Boston
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Hi,

It is probably bad practice,  but I need to spawn processes from a
spawned process ( call it "A").   If I spawn 2 jobs from A, everything
works OK. But trying to spawn 4 or more jobs,  A eventually stops at a
blocking receive (pvm_recv) and the log file has entries about bogus
packets from one of the machines...

My question is, is it documented that one should not spawn processes off
an already spawned process or could it be something I'm doing wrong. I
am running pvm3.4beta6 on a Redhat linux 5.1 cluster.

Thanks for any help,
-Srinidhi