[MITgcm-support] For pgf77, is there already a way to line-buffer the STDOUT and STDERR files?

[Martin Losch]

Hi Bob,

this is probably not very sophisticated:
I am using “flush" to get output in such a case and put it into the routine that I am interested in. If you want output in each timestep, you’d have to put something like “call flush(standardMessageUnit)” in to forward_step.F. If you want output only at the “monitor frequency” (runtime flag monitorFreq), then I’d put this call into monitor.F (into the if block).

Martin

> On 22 Jan 2016, at 21:51, Yantosca, Robert M. <yantosca at seas.harvard.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hi –
>  
> I am a new user of MITgcm.  I was able to build it on the Harvard Odyssey cluster based on the tools/build_options/linux_amd64_pgf77 settings and OpenMPI.
>  
> With the pgfortran compiler, the MITgcm compiles “out-of-the-box” and runs.  But because pgfortran fully-buffers all disk files by default, theSTDOUT.nnnn and STDERR.nnnn files are not flushed to disk while MITgcm is running.  This makes it difficult to check the progress of the run.
>  
> The pgf77 compiler manual says that you can change the buffering options by calling the SETVBUF3F to manually set the buffering options.  For example,
>  
> INTEGER, EXTERNAL :: SETVBUF3F
> . . .
> RC = SETVBUF3F( 6, 1, 16000 )
>  
> will make stdout (unit #6) line buffered with a buffer size of 16K.  (I use this setting on another model and it works fine.)  Then you can redirect stdout to a log file and it will be refreshed during a run.
>  
> My questions:
>  
> (1)   Does anyone know if there is a pgfortran compiler switch that would globally reset the file-buffering options?  Then I wouldn’t have to rely on SETVBUF3F.
>  
> (2)  Failing that, in which routine are the STDOUT.nnnn and STDERR.nnnnfiles opened?  I could try to put calls to SETVBUF3F in those routines right when those files are opened to make them line-buffered.
>  
> Thanks a bunch!
>  
> Best,
>  
> Bob Y.
>  
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