My point is just that it is unwise to assume that the OMPI build can utilize all available processors. I'm sure it's fine for the MTT runs, especially on Jeff's machines as they are dedicated to that purpose - just not a good general assumption.
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 9) configuration:
Platform:
osname=darwin, osvers=10.2.0, archname=darwin-2level
uname='darwin
sjc-rcastain-87111.cisco.com 10.2.0 darwin kernel version 10.2.0: tue nov 3 10:37:10 pst 2009; root:xnu-1486.2.11~1release_i386 i386 '
config_args='-des -D prefix=/opt/local -D scriptdir=/opt/local/bin -D cppflags=-I/opt/local/include -D ccflags=-O2 -arch x86_64 -D ldflags=-L/opt/local/lib -D vendorprefix=/opt/local -D man1ext=1pm -D man3ext=3pm -D cc=/usr/bin/gcc-4.2 -D ld=/usr/bin/gcc-4.2 -D man1dir=/opt/local/share/man/man1p -D man3dir=/opt/local/share/man/man3p -D siteman1dir=/opt/local/share/man/man1 -D siteman3dir=/opt/local/share/man/man3 -D vendorman1dir=/opt/local/share/man/man1 -D vendorman3dir=/opt/local/share/man/man3 -D inc_version_list=5.8.8 5.8.8/darwin-2level -U i_bind -U i_gdbm -U i_db'
hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef
useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
use64bitint=define use64bitall=define uselongdouble=undef
usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
Compiler:
cc='/usr/bin/gcc-4.2', ccflags ='-O2 -arch x86_64 -fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN -I/opt/local/include -no-cpp-precomp -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -I/opt/local/include',
optimize='-O3',
cppflags='-I/opt/local/include -no-cpp-precomp -O2 -arch x86_64 -fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN -I/opt/local/include -no-cpp-precomp -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -I/opt/local/include'
ccversion='', gccversion='4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646) (dot 1)', gccosandvers=''
intsize=4, longsize=8, ptrsize=8, doublesize=8, byteorder=12345678
d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16
ivtype='long', ivsize=8, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
alignbytes=8, prototype=define
Linker and Libraries:
ld='env MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.3 /usr/bin/gcc-4.2', ldflags ='-L/opt/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib'
libpth=/usr/local/lib /opt/local/lib /usr/lib
libs=-ldbm -ldl -lm -lutil -lc
perllibs=-ldl -lm -lutil -lc
libc=/usr/lib/libc.dylib, so=dylib, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
gnulibc_version=''
Dynamic Linking:
dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=bundle, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags='-L/opt/local/lib -bundle -undefined dynamic_lookup -L/usr/local/lib'
Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
Compile-time options: PERL_MALLOC_WRAP USE_64_BIT_ALL USE_64_BIT_INT
USE_FAST_STDIO USE_LARGE_FILES USE_PERLIO
Built under darwin
Compiled at Feb 13 2010 13:19:33
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/opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.9/darwin-2level
/opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.9
/opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl
/opt/local/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.9/darwin-2level
/opt/local/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.9
/opt/local/lib/perl5/vendor_perl
/opt/local/lib/perl5/5.8.9/darwin-2level
/opt/local/lib/perl5/5.8.9
.
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:26 PM, Ralf Wildenhues
<address@hidden> wrote:
Hello Ralph,
wow, that's not good to hear. I knew the perl ithreads implementation
wasn't all that efficient, but causing a deadlock sounds like you have
more trouble than just perl; at least I hope so. For reference, can
you send 'perl -V' output (if you like, to the bug-automake at gnu.org
list).
Thanks,
Ralf
* Ralph Castain wrote on Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 03:12:16AM CEST:
> I found one major negative to this change - it assumes that my build is
> being done in exclusion of anything else on my computer. Unfortunately, this
> is never true.
>
> So my laptop hemorrhaged itself into frozen silence, overheated to the point
> of being burning hot, and had to have its battery yanked to stop the runaway
> behavior. Not a really good thing.
>
> I would suggest you default this "heuristic" out, and let someone set it to
> use multiple runs if-and-only-if they want it. Hate to cite the lowest
> common denominator, but this was a very nasty surprise.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Jeff Squyres <
address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Some of you may be unaware that recent versions of automake can run in
> > parallel. That is, automake will run in parallel with a degree of (at most)
> > $AUTOMAKE_JOBS. This can speed up the execution time of
autogen.pl quite
> > a bit on some platforms. On my cluster at cisco, here's a few quick timings
> > of the entire
autogen.pl process (of which, automake is the bottleneck):
> >
> > $AUTOMAKE_JOBS Total wall time
> > value of
autogen.pl
> > 8 3:01.46
> > 4 2:55.57
> > 2 3:28.09
> > 1 4:38.44
> >
> > This is an older Xeon machine with 2 sockets, each with 2 cores.
> >
> > There's a nice performance jump from 1 to 2, and a smaller jump from 2 to
> > 4. 4 and 8 are close enough to not matter. YMMV.
> >
> > I just committed a heuristic to
autogen.pl to setenv AUTOMAKE_JOBS if it
> > is not already set (
https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/changeset/23788):
> >
> > - If lstopo is found in your $PATH, runs it and count how many PU's
> > (processing units) you have. It'll set AUTOMAKE_JOBS to that number, or a
> > maximum of 4 (which is admittedly a further heuristic).
> > - If lstopo is not found, it just sets AUTOMAKE_JOBS to 2.
> >
> > Enjoy.
> >
> > --
> > Jeff Squyres
> >
address@hidden
> > For corporate legal information go to:
> >
http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/
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