From: Markus Fischer <markus@markus-fischer.de>
Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
Subject: Re: Problems upgrading to PVM 3.4
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 11:59:24 +0200
Organization: University of Mannheim
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Hi,

if you don"t turn PVM_SHMEM on then sockets will be used, even
on SUNMP.

what happens if you just start the pvmd ?
what does the pvml.uid file say ?

markus

Andrew Reilly wrote:

> Hi,
>
> For the last few months I have been successfully using PVM 3.3.11 on a
> network of Sun Solaris 2.7 workstations. Most of the workstations have the
> SUN4SOL2 architecture and two have the SUNMP (shared memory) architecture.
>
> I have now tried to upgrade to PVM 3.4 but have had a few problems. The
> new daemon runs fine on the SUN4SOL2 boxes, but it just seems to hang when
> I try to start it on the SUNMP boxes. I've tried various modifications to
> the SUNMP.def file and also setting PVM_SHMEM on and off, but nothing
> seems to work.
>
> Does anyone know what could be going wrong?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrew J. Reilly
>
> ---------------------
> Andrew J. Reilly
> Medical Physics Dept.
> Ninewells Hospital
> Dundee
> Scotland
> DD1 9SY

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