[gmx-developers] Gromacs 2016.3 (and earlier) freezing up.

[Mark Abraham]

Hi,

Thanks. Was PME tuning active? Does it reproduce if that is disabled? Is
the PME tuning still active? How many steps have taken place (at least as
reported in the log file but ideally from processes)?

Mark

On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 4:42 PM Åke Sandgren <ake.sandgren at hpc2n.umu.se>
wrote:

> My debugger run finally got to the lockup.
>
> All processes are waiting on various MPI operations.
>
> Attached a stack dump of all 56 tasks.
>
> I'll keep the debug session running for a while in case anyone wants
> some more detailed data.
> This is a RelwithDeb build though so not everything is available.
>
> On 09/08/2017 11:28 AM, Berk Hess wrote:
> > But you should be able to get some (limited) information by attaching a
> > debugger to an aldready running process with a release build.
> >
> > If you plan on compiling and running a new case, use a release + debug
> > symbols build. That should run as fast as a release build.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Berk
> >
> > On 2017-09-08 11:23, Åke Sandgren wrote:
> >> We have, at least, one case that when run over 2 nodes, or more, quite
> >> often (always) hangs, i.e. no more output in md.log or otherwise while
> >> mdrun still consumes cpu time. It takes a random time before it happens,
> >> like 1-3 days.
> >>
> >> The case can be shared if someone else wants to investigate. I'm
> >> planning to run it in the debugger to be able to break and look at
> >> states when it happens, but since it takes so long with the production
> >> build it is not something i'm looking forward to.
> >>
> >> On 09/08/2017 11:13 AM, Berk Hess wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> We are far behind schedule for the 2017 release. We are working hard on
> >>> it, but I don't think we can promise a date yet.
> >>>
> >>> We have a 2016.4 release planned for this week (might slip to next
> >>> week). But if you can give us enough details to track down your hanging
> >>> issue, we might be able to fix it in 2016.4.
> >
>
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