[michu5696]

Hi!
So just what it's written on the title, when trying to run rhoPimpleFoam with the collated filaHandler it just hangs. It remains blocked forever.
After many many trials and lots of time spent tying to spot the problem I've come to realize it is nothing related to the OpenFOAM version, nor the MPI backend or threading capabilities of the latter. It must merely be a question of how the case is built, since I've run it on other tutorial cases under the same circumstances and it worked smoothly.


The workflow is the ordinary:

>> blockMesh
>> decomposePar -fileHandler collated
>> mpirun -np 4 rhoPimpleFoam -parallel -fileHandler collated

and BINGO!

Build : _f3950763fe-20191219 OPENFOAM=1912
Arch : "LSB;label=32;scalar=64"
Exec : rhoPimpleFoam -parallel -fileHandler collated
Date : Jun 10 2020
Time : 16:31:01
Host : michu-laptop
PID : 279801
I/O : collated (maxThreadFileBufferSize 0)
Threading not activated since maxThreadFileBufferSize = 0.
Writing may run slowly for large file sizes.

--- HANGS IN HERE FOREVER ----

* Note that I set maxThreadFileBufferSize to 0 in $FOAM_ETC/controlDict so you don't tell it is because my MPI implementation doesn't support threading. I've tested both Gcc and Icc compilations with impi and openmpi.

Here's the simplified case on github so you can clone it, run it and see it for yourselves.

git clone git@github.com:michu5696/ashee.git

Since I'm no OpenFOAM expert, could you explain to me what is wrong with this case?

Thanks a lot in advance!!

[michu5696]

Ok. For anybody experiencing the same problem. I just figured out. It took me some time and honestly it's the stupidest thing ever. This must be a bug in the implementation of collated output.
For some reason, if you set your dictionary variables from a personal dictionary by adding

"#include mydict"

the collated fileHandler hangs forever.
End of story.

[jherb]

Have you filed a bug at https://bugs.openfoam.org/rules.php ?

[michu5696]

Yes!
https://develop.openfoam.com/Develop.../-/issues/1765

[Bodo1993]

Originally Posted by michu5696

Ok. For anybody experiencing the same problem. I just figured out. It took me some time and honestly it's the stupidest thing ever. This must be a bug in the implementation of collated output.
For some reason, if you set your dictionary variables from a personal dictionary by adding

"#include mydict"

the collated fileHandler hangs forever.
End of story.

Thanks a lot.
Your post was very helpful. I got stuck on the same issue until I saw it.
I had to remove the #include from the decompseParDict and enter the number of subdomains manually.
The suggested workaround from the bug report did not help me as I got errors too.
I am wondering if you managed to resolve your issue while keeping the #include in the decompseParDict file. Thanks.

[koray]

I've only deleted foamdatatofluentdict file and restarted the job. It worked...