[FLASH-USERS] Segmentation Fault After Lowering # of Processors

[Reyes, Adam]

Hi Josh,

Are you able to reproduce this issue on any of the provided test problems? 

You could try compiling with debug flags to see if you’re able to get a usable back trace to narrow down where the problem might be.
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Adam Reyes


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Research Scientist, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
University of Rochester
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> On Nov 6, 2023, at 4:25 PM, Joshua Martin <joshua.martin.1 at stonybrook.edu> wrote:
> 
> FLASH Users,
> 
> I'm currently running a strong-scaling study and am running into some issues when lowering the number of processors. The custom supernova problem in FLASH I am using will run fine when on 16-96 cores (single node), but when I use 8 cores or lower, I get a Signal 11 (Segmentation fault) while attempting to load the same checkpoint file I use for the other runs:
> 
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> mpiexec noticed that process rank 0 with PID 577551 on node dg036 exited on signal 11 (Segmentation fault).
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> 
> A few quick notes:
> 
> 1) I am allocating a total of 37,000 blocks, and accordingly adjusting maxblocks based on the number of processors I'm using.
> 
> 2) FLASH will run on 1-8 cores if I use an earlier checkpoint file of ~15 GB. But it crashes when I try to use the ~30 GB checkpoint file from the same problem.
> 
> 3) This segfault happens when running the problem on 1-8 cores using the GCC compiler on different architectures -- Intel Skylake, AMD Milan, and Intel Sapphire Rapids. But, it loads the checkpoint file and runs fine when using the AOCC compiler on the AMD Milan architecture, or when running on > 8 cores.
> 
> Any ideas what is going on with this?
> 
> Thank you!!
> 
> Josh Martin.
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