yep -- that sums it up, you could open an issue (on your issue). On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 6:52 AM, Oliver Schulz <[email protected] > wrote:
> Sure, but *how* do I preset JULIA_NUM_THREADS in the environment of the > workers? It'll still be application dependent, so it can be in a .profile > or so (which probably won't be run anyway for the worker processes). > > > On Wednesday, August 17, 2016 at 12:00:16 PM UTC+2, Jeffrey Sarnoff wrote: >> >> Hi Oliver, >> >> I omitted two letters "the environment" should have been "their >> environment": >> "and in [each of] *their* [remote] enviroment[s] JULIA_NUM_THREADS had >> been preset [in each remote environment before each remote Julia had been >> started].. >> >> from in the REPL ?addprocs >> " Note that workers do not run a .juliarc.jl startup script, nor do they >> synchronize their global state (such as global variables, new method >> definitions, >> and loaded modules) with any of the other running processes." >> >> so it seems environment variables are one of those nonsynced things >> >> -- Jeffrey >> >> >> On Wednesday, August 17, 2016 at 5:17:53 AM UTC-4, Oliver Schulz wrote: >>> >>> Hi Jeff, >>> >>> > If your remote workers are remotely local invocations of Julia and in >>> the environment JULIA_NUM_THREADS has been preset, then the remote workers >>> will be using that many threads >>> >>> I tried it, and at least when the workers are started via SSH (using >>> addprocs([host1, ...])), that doesn't seem to be the case, JULIA_NUM_THREADS >>> doesn't seem to be passed on. It would actually be very helpful to be >>> able to forward (or explicitly set) environment variables for remote >>> workers. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Oliver >>> >>> >>> On Wednesday, August 17, 2016 at 12:16:11 AM UTC+2, Jeffrey Sarnoff >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi Oliver, >>>> As I understand it: >>>> JULIA_NUM_THREADS is an environment variable read by the local >>>> invocation of Julia. It is not a run-time passable value. If your remote >>>> workers are remotely local invocations of Julia and in the environment >>>> JULIA_NUM_THREADS has been preset, then the remote workers will be using >>>> that many threads (if the have the cores). >>>> >>>> >>>> On Tuesday, August 16, 2016 at 11:52:20 AM UTC-4, Oliver Schulz wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I guess the answer is "no", then? >>>>> >>>>> On Monday, August 1, 2016 at 3:26:17 PM UTC+2, Oliver Schulz wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Is it possible to pass on or explicitly set JULIA_NUM_THREADS for >>>>>> remote workers started via >>>>>> >>>>>> addprocs([host1, ...]) >>>>>> >>>>>> ? >>>>>> >>>>>>
