From: Tobias Mangold Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm Subject: tasks with arguments ... PROBLEMS Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 08:33:13 +0200 Organization: HFT Distribution: world Message-Id: <373FB829.F35A712A@hft.ei.tum.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Xref: ukc comp.parallel.pvm:8386 Hi, is there a way to spawn tasks with arguments from the pvm console ? When starting a task with arguments from a regular shell everything works fine except for the fact, that the first task spawned with pvm_spawn() will be placed on the same machine as the root process. This happens 80% of the time no matter how many machines configured in a virtual machine. An example: A virtual machine configured with four hosts of the same ARCH is running 3 jobs on only 2 machines plus a group server on a third machine. One machine is unused. The first job ( with some arguments ) was started from within a c-shell, the other two tasks were spawned from this job with pvm_spawn(). Any ideas how to solve this problem ? Toby -- T. Mangold, Lehrstuhl fuer Hochfrequenztechnik Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Arcisstr. 21, D-80333 Muenchen, Germany TEL: ++49-89-289-23371 / FAX: ++49-89-289-23365 Email: mangold@hft.ei.tum.de