Re: [Pympi-users] ValueError when attempting to access mpi.irecv() result object

[Pat M. <pat...@gm...>]

This one sounds pretty serious...  The request object is really in
need of some overhaul (it remained basically untouched during
the great 2.0 rewrite in 2003).  I will see if I can recreate.  If not,
I can send you a patch that will help shed light on what is happening.

Pat

On 11/3/06, emi...@en... <emi...@en...> wrote:
> I have coded up a fairly simple Manager/Worker style MPI application from
> within pyMPI and have been using it for some time now to run some jobs.
>
> At the core of the Manager process i have in essense
>
> request = mpi.irecv()
> while( there is work to do )
>   if ( there is an idle worker )
>     mpi.send( job to idle worker )
>   if request:
>     process worker result
>     if ( more results expected )
>       request = mpi.irecv()
>
> this is certainly a simplified version of the code, but the algorithm and
> the calls to mpi.irecv are provided to show where i'm doing this.
>
> This has run fine without issue for several weeks now. Recently the issue
> below has started to crop up. My only guess for the reason is that my
> job/result sizes are much larger than they used to be. This might be
> increasing the likely hood that the issue will arise (it's not 100% but i
> can get it to crash about 1/5 application runs)
>
> The error occurs below on the line
>
>   if request:
> ValueError: Fatal internal unpickling error
>
> I am concerned that I am not using the mpi module packaged with pyMPI
> correctly, should I be using a different algorithm for dispatching the
> jobs to worker processes? I'm just not sure what is causing this since I
> have made no changes to the Manager/Worker code module I developed and the
> only differences is the larger job/result messages (around 500+ characters
> now)
>
> Eamon Millman
>
>
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