Thursday, February 6, 2014

MPI fail due to insufficient space

If you encounter an error that cause your MPI run to fail, such as the one below, it is due to the /tmp not having sufficient space  

[node1:25646] [[31090,0],0] ORTE_ERROR_LOG: Error in file orterun.c at line 543
Number of requested processors =  8
[node1:25663] opal_os_dirpath_create: Error: Unable to create the sub-directory 
(/tmp/openmpi-sessions-user1@node1_0) of (/tmp/openmpi-sessions-user1@node1_0/31075/0/0), mkdir failed [1]
[node1:25663] [[31075,0],0] ORTE_ERROR_LOG: Error in file util/session_dir.c at line 106
[node1:25663] [[31075,0],0] ORTE_ERROR_LOG: Error in file util/session_dir.c at line 399
[node1:25663] [[31075,0],0] ORTE_ERROR_LOG: Error in file ess_hnp_module.c at line 304

The solution is to clean up the /tmp or the partition where /tmp is residing. You can choose the "df -h" at the console to verify that your HDD space

# df -h

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