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Re: Problems with GNU Parallel and ulimit
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ericbavier |
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Re: Problems with GNU Parallel and ulimit |
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Tue, 15 Aug 2017 04:41:27 -0000 |
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> On 08/15/2017 at 00:14 Arun Isaac writes:
>
>> Leo Famulari writes:
>>
>>> On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 12:46:25PM +1000, Ben Woodcroft wrote:
>>>> On 14/08/17 12:31, Arun Isaac wrote:
>>>> > Does `parallel' work for anybody? When I run
>>>> >
>>>> > $ ls | parallel echo
>>>> >
>>>> > I get the following error message, and nothing happens.
>>>> It works fine for me using Guix on a foreign OS, and has since I can
>>>> remember.
>>>> ben
>>>
>>> Same here. Arun, can you give some more details about your system?
>>
>> This is probably a problem only on GuixSD systems. Could you try on
>> GuixSD instead of using Guix on a foreign distro?
>
> I think you are correct. I run GuixSD and, after installing parallel I
> get ...
>
> ***
> address@hidden ~$ ls | parallel echo
> ...
> parallel: Warning: No more processes: Decreasing number of running jobs to 7.
> parallel: Warning: Raising ulimit -u or /etc/security/limits.conf may help.
The problem appears if you do not have 'perl' available in $PATH. GNU parallel
calls it recursively for a few tasks:
$ guix package -I | grep "perl"
$ echo $?
1
$ parallel echo ::: 1 2 3
...
parallel: Warning: Raising ulimit -u or /etc/security/limits.conf may help.
parallel: Error: No more processes: cannot run a single job. Something is wrong
at 1.
$ guix environment --ad-hoc perl
[dev]$ parallel echo ::: 1 2 3
1
2
3
There is some path patching that goes on in the package recipe, but it must
have gone out of sync in latest versions. The 'post-install-test' phase
wouldn't catch this particular error without '(setenv "PATH" "")'.
I wouldn't feel quite comfortable doing a "blind" update of the regex, since
some mentions of "perl" I think are meant to be executed by remote hosts and so
shouldn't be patched to absolute store references.
It might be useful to get Ole's opinion on this.
`~Eric
> I am not a parallel user so I can't comment further.
>
> HTH - George