...Because I was not aware of --delay.  ;)  Thanks.

On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 9:19 PM, Ole Tange <[email protected]> wrote:

> Can you explain why --load X, --delay Y does not solve this for you?
>
> /Ole
>
> On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Jay Hacker <[email protected]> wrote:
> > This is awesome.  It works for me (as you said, plus or minus a few
> > processes).  Thank you.
> >
> > Would it be possible to use this for the  '--slowstart X' feature, that
> > starts one job at a time, waits X seconds, and looks at the load before
> > starting another?
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 8:23 PM, Ole Tange <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> I have implemented an instant --load calculator. With this it should
> >> be possible to tell GNU Parallel to spawn a process for each CPU that
> >> is currently sitting idle.
> >>
> >> On a 64 core machine this:
> >>
> >> seq 10000 | parallel --load 20% burnP6 &
> >> sleep 2
> >> seq 10000 | parallel --load 100% burnMMX &
> >> sleep 4
> >> seq 10000 | parallel --load 100% burnBX &
> >>
> >> will start 14 burnP6, 52 burnMMX, and 0 burnBX. If the first parallel
> >> is killed, the last remaining parallels will spawn around 14 processes
> >> it total.
> >>
> >> It should also count processes that are waiting for local disks as
> >> non-idle. So this:
> >>
> >> ls *iso | parallel --load 1 -j0 -v cat
> >>
> >> will only spawn 3 cat and not one for every iso file.
> >>
> >> The biggest problem I have seen so far is that it is not very
> >> accurate. So it may shoot a little over or under the target (2-4). But
> >> it seems way better than the previous --load.
> >>
> >> http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/parallel/parallel-20130307.tar.bz2
> >>
> >> Please give it a spin and provide feedback.
> >>
> >>
> >> /Ole
> >>
> >
>

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