Subject: Re: [OMPI users] Exit Program Without Calling MPI_Finalize ForSpecial Case
From: Jeff Squyres (jsquyres_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-06-04 07:31:18
On Jun 4, 2009, at 2:16 AM, Tee Wen Kai wrote:
> Just to find out more about the consequences for exiting MPI
> processes without calling MPI_Finalize, will it cause memory leak or
> other fatal problem?
If you're exiting the process, you won't cause any kind of problems --
the OS will clean up everything.
However, we might also have the orted clean up some things when MPI
processes unexpectedly die (e.g., filesystem temporary files in /
tmp). So you might want to leave those around to clean themselves up
and die naturally.
-- Jeff Squyres Cisco Systems