GNU parallel bug

2018-09-20 Thread Ihsan Ecemis
Hello, We started having GNU Parallel crashing on our production server with the following message: parallel: This should not happen. You have found a bug. Please contact and include: * The version number: 20160222 * The bugid: loadavg_invalid_content: /home/ec2-user/.parallel/tmp/loadavg-: *

Re: GNU parallel bug

2018-09-20 Thread Hans Schou
Hi Ihsan > The version number: 20160222 That is quite an old version. You should upgrade to the newest version: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parallel/?C=M;O=D Remember, 'parallel' is just one Perl script, so an upgrade could be as simple as downloading the tar-ball and replace that one file on your s

Re: GNU parallel bug

2018-09-20 Thread Ihsan Ecemis
Thank you very much for your quick reply! I installed parallel on an AWS EC2 (on a quite new, Linux 2 AMI) using yum, without realizing it was such an old version! I will install the latest version from the tar file you mentioned. Will also drop noswap option. Thank you very much once again