Description of problem Hi, I have a couple of issues that appear to be related, stemming from the use of multiprocess: parallelizing simulations with multiprocess.Pool produces a lot of warning messages, but it doesn’t kill the process and the code runs to completion when calling via “python my_s…

Without having the time to delve into this further: I saw Cannot allocate memory in your error message, so can you make sure that you are not simply running out of memory and/or disk space when you run the simulations in parallel?

Aside from the traceback, the actual errors seem to be of the form File “/home/macke/rgao97/.conda/envs/automind_slurm/lib/python3.8/logging/handlers.py”, line 170, in doRollover os.remove(dfn) FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: ‘/tmp/brian_debug_m6zje3k0.log.1’ which points t…

It’s tricky to debug these sorts of issues when it only occurs on a particular cluster, etc. It looks like the issue is something to do with the logging system, so one option would be to turn logging to a file off and see if that fixes the problem. You need to update the preference logging.file_log…

hey @dan and @kernfel , thanks for your replies! I tried a bunch of things this week to debug this, no luck, but I will document it all here in case it’s helpful / if someone else stumbles onto the same problem. tl;dr: it seems like multiprocess is really the problem, because running the job with th…

yeah wow that did it: I was allocating 10GB across 64 processes, which was apparently not enough, 5GB per process solved it. thank you @mstimberg !!!

Simulation with multiprocess returns weird errors and hangs on slurm cluster

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Simulation with multiprocess returns weird errors and hangs on slurm cluster

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