Re: Parallel “Bug”

[Ole Tange]

On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 10:24 PM, Larry Ploetz <lploetz@gmail.com> wrote:

> Don't know if this really qualifies as a bug, but there were too many open
> files on my MacOS system, which resulted in parallel doing:
>
> Couldn't open /dev/null: Too many open files in system
> parallel: This should not happen. You have found a bug.

I simply cannot provoke this error. If there are too few filehandles,
I will get:

parallel: Warning: Only enough file handles to run 252 jobs in parallel.

How did you manage to trigger that error? Can you reproduce it? And if
possible can you reproduce it on a linux system?

/Ole