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Re: starting 10 extra processes takes long warning while using only 8 co


From: Ole Tange
Subject: Re: starting 10 extra processes takes long warning while using only 8 cores
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:17:10 +0100

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Ozgur Akgun <ozgurakgun@gmail.com> wrote:

> Command I use:
>>
>> parallel -j 8 -N 2 "echo {1} {2}; ./run.sh {1} {2} > /dev/null"
>
> And the warning:
>>
>> parallel: Warning: Starting 10 extra processes takes > 2 sec.
>>
>> Consider adjusting -j. Press CTRL-C to stop.

This is because your input is being generated slowly. See this example:

seq 1 10 | parallel -j1 "sleep 1; echo {}" | parallel echo

Since you are the 3rd person experiencing this (and being confused by
it), I might have to do so checking for that.

You can safely ignore the warning.


/Ole



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