Jon Peatfield wrote:
>> |Use sysctl to set sunrpc.min_resvport to 665
>> |(IPMI cards use port 664 also)
> 
> That sysctl didn't used to be available -- well I can't find it on SL308 
> systems.

The system we found this problem on is a SuSE 9.3 install.

>> Also I forgot to note that this doesn't happen with ssh.
> 
> Another good reason to drop rsh... :-)
Yes indeed. On this system the workaround we have is to use ssh to start 
  parallel jobs (HP version of MPI can be set to use rsh or ssh)


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