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Commit fdb159e3 authored by Morris Jette's avatar Morris Jette
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Add note about OpenMPI locked memory limit failure

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......@@ -98,7 +98,6 @@ $ salloc -n4 sh # allocates 4 processors and spawns shell for job
> srun --mpi=pmi2 -n 4 a.out
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<p>If the ports reserved for a job step are found by the Open MPI library
to be in use, a message of this form will be printed and the job step
will be re-launched:<br>
......@@ -108,6 +107,12 @@ Repeated failures should be reported to your system administrator in
order to rectify the problem by cancelling the processes holding those
ports.</p>
<p>NOTE: Some kernels and system configurations have resulted in a locked memory
too small for proper OpemMPI functionality, resulting in application failure
with a segmentation fault. This may be fixed by configuring the slurmd daemon
to execute with a larger limit. For example, add "LimitMEMLOCK=infinity" to
your slurmd.service file.</p>
<hr size=4 width="100%">
<h2><a name="intel_mpi"><b>Intel MPI</b></a></h2>
......@@ -512,6 +517,6 @@ $ srun -N4 -n16 a.out
<hr size=4 width="100%">
<p style="text-align:center;">Last modified 20 April 2015</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Last modified 23 June 2015</p>
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