Re: Dynamically changing remote servers list

2014-08-17 Thread Ole Tange
On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 8:10 PM, Douglas A. Augusto wrote: > If the ability to dynamically include/exclude servers is implemented (for > instance by re-reading a file containing the list of servers) then the user > could take care of maintaining a list of active servers by doing something > like

Re: Dynamically changing remote servers list

2014-08-17 Thread ChessDoter
Hi, Am 17.08.2014 um 12:30 schrieb [email protected]: GNU Parallel is (as crazy as it sounds) mostly serial. Ah! So you already understand what the weird point is. But since fixing the problem at its root requires a different mindset, i question if you want to do that NOW, as it might t

Re: Dynamically changing remote servers list

2014-08-17 Thread Rob Sargent
I have not been following this thread closely but the notion of a threaded GNU Parallel troubles me. I use it to distribute jobs which may or may not be themselves multithreaded and I set --jobs according to the level of threading. I would not want to have to consider parallel's as part of the

Re: Dynamically changing remote servers list

2014-08-17 Thread ChessDoter
Hi Rob, good point there. In linux, people used to say: "Do one thing only and do it well." Obviously, GNU Parallel does many things combined, which makes it useable in very different use cases, but... sometimes complicated to understand, sometimes less suitable,... and the Job in question he

Re: Dynamically changing remote servers list

2014-08-17 Thread Douglas A. Augusto
On 17/08/2014 at 12:29, Ole Tange wrote: > So you are basically suggesting a daemon that keeps the slf updated. > > Daemon: > > forever { > nice parallel --nonall -j0 -k --slf original.slf --tag echo | remove > final tab > tmp.slf > if diff tmp.slf original.slf: > mv tmp.slf tmp2.slf >