[Pw_forum] newbie update

[Axel Kohlmeyer]

On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Lex Kemper wrote:

LK> Hey Axel,
LK> 
LK> In my case, exporting OMP_NUM_THREADS from my .bashrc was sufficient. 
LK> I guess that's not the case everywhere.

right. this happens mostly on batch systems when launching jobs through
libtorque (very convenient, but you don't get a login shell) and
some ssh setups also do not read .profile. 

also one has to consider that debian based systems (incl ubuntu), 
don't use /bin/bash as /bin/sh, but have a version of /bin/ash as 
/bin/sh and that one only reads .profile (which many bash setups 
in turn don't) but, of course, not .bashrc.

so it is actually a good idea to verify this, like JR did.
the case of a not exported environment is nasty, because it
will slow down the calculation (if you run 8 mpi tasks on a
2x quad-core node, mkl with spawn 8 threads for each of them),
without the telltale sign on the rank0 node of cpu time being
multiple times larger than the walltime.

cheers,
   axel.



LK> Thanks!
LK> 
LK> Lex
LK> 

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