From: Tobias Mangold Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm Subject: Re: tasks with arguments ... PROBLEMS Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 13:12:40 +0200 Organization: HFT Distribution: world Message-Id: <37414B27.81725F86@hft.ei.tum.de> References: <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:8396 Tobias Mangold wrote: > Hi, > > is there a way to spawn tasks with arguments from the pvm console ? O.K. I figured out to do that, but ... > 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. ... starting the root-task from the pvm console didn't solve the problem ! > 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, ( ... or from a pvm console ... ) > > 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