On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 3:50 PM, Jorge Fernández de Cossío Díaz <[email protected]> wrote: > In my system, running julia from the console to launch the REPL launches 3 > processes named Julia. > If I execute a julia script containing no parallel code, like > > julia myscript.jl > > I also get 3 processes, and all three seem to do work. > > I have NOT aliased julia to julia -p 3. > > I am using Ubuntu 15.10, although this also happens on a system with 14.04, > and on a remote cluster, and with different scripts. All are x64, Julia > v0.4.5. In all cases, too many processes are launched. > > Any ideas on what could be happening?
Those should be OpenBLAS worker thread and should not cost you any trouble unless you are hitting the PID limit.
