Jakob Oestergaard wrote: > On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 10:03:42AM -0700, Michael Will wrote: >> That's wierd. On my scyld cluster it worked fine once I had created >> /tmp/oooo/ on all compute nodes before running the job. >> > > Nope, it's not weird, it's just lucky :) > > Writing to memory you aren't meant to write to can lead to anything or > nothing, depending mostly on luck - or higher powers if you want to > believe that :)
It should lead to SEGV's. If it doesn't then you are running into the dreaded Beware of this code bug, it is subtle and quick to anger (and crash at inopportune moments). Joe > -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Founder and CEO Scalable Informatics LLC, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web : http://www.scalableinformatics.com phone: +1 734 786 8423 fax : +1 734 786 8452 or +1 866 888 3112 cell : +1 734 612 4615 _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf