On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 10:27 PM, Jed Brown <jedbrown@mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

Are _all_ the processes making it here?

Sigh.  I knew someone was going to ask that ;-)

I'll have to write a short script to grab the stack trace from every one of the 10,000 processes to see where they are and try to find any anomalies.   Anyone have a script (or pieces of one) to do this that they wouldn't mind sharing?

I did spot check quite a few and they were all in the same spot.

Now here comes the weirdness: I left one of these processes attached in GDB for quite a while (10+ minutes) after the whole job had been hung for over an hour.  When I noticed that I had left it attached I detached GDB and.... the job started right up!  That is: it moved on past this problem!  How is that for some weirdness.  It might have just been coincidence... or maybe me stalling that process for a bit by attaching GDB nudged some communication in the right direction... I don't know.