[Numpy-discussion] Built Lapack, Atlas from source.... now numpy.linalg.eig() hangs at 100% CPU

Chris Colbert sccolbert at gmail.com
Fri Mar 27 11:20:22 EDT 2009


I built Atlas 3.8.3 which I assume is the newest release.

Chris

2009/3/27 Charles R Harris <charlesr.harris at gmail.com>

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> 2009/3/27 Chris Colbert <sccolbert at gmail.com>
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>> Hey Everyone,
>>
>> I built Lapack and Atlas from source last night on a C2D running 32-bit
>> Linux Mint 6.  I ran 'make check' and 'make time' on the lapack build, and
>> ran the dynamic LU decomp test on atlas. Both packages checked out fine.
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>> Then, I built numpy and scipy against them using the appropriate flags in
>> site.cfg for the parallel thread atlas libraries. This seems to have worked
>> properly as numpy.dot() utilizes both cores at 100% on very large arrays. I
>> have also done id(numpy.dot) and id(numpy.core.multiarray.dot) and verified
>> that the two ids are different.
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>> So I believe the build went properly. The problem I am having now is that
>> numpy.linalg.eig (and the eig functions in scipy) hang at 100% CPU and never
>> returns (no matter the array size). Numpy.test() hung as well, I'm assuming
>> for this same reason. I have included the configurations below. Any idea
>> what would cause this?
>>
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> This is a problem that used to turn up regularly and was related to the
> atlas build. The atlas version can matter here, but I don't know what the
> currently recommended atlas version is.
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> Chuck
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