Re: parallel stops working for no obvious reason

[Ole Tange]

On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Thomas Sattler
<sattler@med.uni-frankfurt.de> wrote:

> Not fixed in v20120322: parallel stopped working after processing
> 5,710,349 files (which is about 30% of all jobs). There's still a
> lot of free space on the disk, the system load is 0.17.
>
> Please try to reproduce it with the script I attached elsewhere
> in this thread.

That will in practice be impossible: You have not included the
5,710,349 files you use for your test and currently we cannot rule out
that they have something to do with this. Make your test case smaller
and with a high chance of reproducing the error within at most 1 hour
of running on a dual core machine, otherwise do not expect anyone to
be able to reproduce the problem you see.

If you have not killed the job already you could try:

       killall -USR1 parallel

This should give you the list of jobs that parallel thinks is
currently running. Maybe that will give an indication of why you see
what you see.


/Ole