[mvapich-discuss] problem running mpd as daemon with mvapich2 0.9.8

[Matthew Koop]

Rick,

> > Can you try adding 'ulimit -l unlimited' within your init script for MPD
> > and see if that solves your issue?

> That did it!  Thanks a lot!

Very glad to hear things are working well for you now.

> For anyone that's interested, I've attached the init script we use.  It uses a
> file /etc/sysconfig/mpd - the file has 2 lines - MPDMODE=<master|slave> and
> MPDMASTER=<hostname of cluster master>.  The attached script is for redhat
> and fedora.  It can easily be modified for other distros.  The one unique
> thing about this script is that it prevents hangs on shutdown by forcibly
> killing mpd if it doesn't terminate properly (we saw that problem with
> mpich2 - don't know if it's in mvapich2 as well).

Thanks for providing this script for others as well.

Let us know if you encounter anything else or have any suggestions,

Matt