Re: starvation with "--load" on multicore (was: parallel stops working for no obvious reason)

2012-04-10 Thread Ole Tange
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Ole Tange wrote: > On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 2:35 AM, Ole Tange wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Thomas Sattler >> wrote: >> export PARALLEL="--load 100% --verbose" >> echo PARALLEL=$PARALLEL >> >> for i in $(seq 2 10); do >>  i2=$[i*i] >>  echo creating $

GNU Parallel 20120411 alpha released

2012-04-10 Thread Ole Tange
GNU Parallel 20120411 alpha has been released. It is available for download at: http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/parallel/ New in this release: * A bugfix for a race condition that may cause other race conditions to arise. Therefore it will be good if you test this especially if you run a lot of jobs or

Idea: magic quoting

2012-04-10 Thread Ole Tange
Quoting is a bitch. There is simply no correct way to Do What I Mean(tm). Currently these do the same: parallel echo {} \> {} ::: 1 parallel "echo {} > {}" ::: 1 And I think it makes good sense that you can choose to quote parts of the expression if you want to. In the above case you want a