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1 total messages Started by homeis Wed, 02 May 1990 15:34
Re: Re: Helios (reset problems and other experiences)
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Author: homeis
Date: Wed, 02 May 1990 15:34
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On 27 Apr 90  Tommy Leemann, Zurich, Switzerland, said:

>>* If I connect my transputers to a 2-D-grid ...
>.... I guess your resource map doesn't correspond
>to your actual hardware configuration.

I am quite sure that my resource map is ok. May be the reason is my small
memory (250 KB per node).

>>* Helios crashes a lot of times ...
>We had similar crash problems. The PC-server probably doesn't have enough
>memory and doesn't care to tell you about. Try to give as much as possible
>DOS-memory to the PC-server. With version 1.1A we don't have that problem.
>Here the server doesn't start with too little memory!

My server has 640 KB PC memory. And server crashes are not the only crashes.

>>* It is impossible to redirect the stderr, so we could never save ...
>We havn't had such problems at all. In our makefile we always redirect the
>error output into files.

Could You please post an example?

>>* After a while one ore more transputers die without a recognizable ...
>No idea. Couldn't this be the result of a wild program damaging Helios
>resources on that transputer?

This happens even if *no* user programs are running.

Thank You for Your Reply.

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Dieter Homeister, Universitaet Stuttgart,
Institut fuer parallele und verteilte Hoechstleistungsrechner (IPVR)
7000 Stuttgart 1, Azenbergstr. 12, Tel 0711-121-1342, W-Germany
e-mail homeister@informatik.uni-stuttgart.dbp.de
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