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Hello,
I've got simple question about TMPDIR behaviour of Intel MPI.
We are receiving some info in the logs:
[bash]mpd: wn29_60522 (run 1652): Warning: the directory pointed by TMPDIR (/tmp/pbs.16445.mgmt1) does not exist! /tmp will be used.[/bash]
We are using PBS Professional which sets TMPDIR to job-specific directory but it only creates it on the first compute node. I believe that this is a problem - I assume that mpd tries to use $TMPDIR on every node it runs.
Is that right? How can we avoid it?
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Hi Rafal,
Please use I_MPI_MPD_TMPDIR env variable - it has higher priority.
$ export I_MPI_MPD_TMPDIR=/tmp
and all temp files will be in /tmp directory.
Please don't use directories located on parallel file systems (like pvfs) for temporary files!
Regards!
Dmitry
Please use I_MPI_MPD_TMPDIR env variable - it has higher priority.
$ export I_MPI_MPD_TMPDIR=/tmp
and all temp files will be in /tmp directory.
Please don't use directories located on parallel file systems (like pvfs) for temporary files!
Regards!
Dmitry
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Hi Rafal,
Please use I_MPI_MPD_TMPDIR env variable - it has higher priority.
$ export I_MPI_MPD_TMPDIR=/tmp
and all temp files will be in /tmp directory.
Please don't use directories located on parallel file systems (like pvfs) for temporary files!
Regards!
Dmitry
Please use I_MPI_MPD_TMPDIR env variable - it has higher priority.
$ export I_MPI_MPD_TMPDIR=/tmp
and all temp files will be in /tmp directory.
Please don't use directories located on parallel file systems (like pvfs) for temporary files!
Regards!
Dmitry
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Hi Dmitry,
I wanted to use $TMPDIR assigned by PBS because it is destroyed every time job finishes - that would look after cleaning up (in case if mpd failed and left some files behind) but as I see there is no "right" way...
I'm aware that /tmp should be local, have no fear :)
I see the best option is to clear /tmp on regular basis...
Thanks for tip!
Regards
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Rafal, is it possible to create /tmp directory on a shared drive?
Regards!
Dmitry
Regards!
Dmitry

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