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On Sat, 7 Feb 2015 00:56 xmoon 2000 <xmoon2...@googlemail.com> wrote: > I am running this in cygwin. I call parallel from the standard > window/shell supplied by cygwin. > > What makes you think it is bash? (You may well be right) > > On 6 February 2015 at 14:43, Felipe Alvarez <felipe.alva...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Is there a"lighter" shell that you can use other than bash? > > > > > > On Fri, 6 Feb 2015 23:20 xmoon 2000 <xmoon2...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> I need to run about 4,000 jobs that each take around 20 seconds to > >> complete > >> > >> using: > >> > >> cat /tmp/parList | parallel -j 28 --eta; > >> > >> On my 32 core machine works OK, BUT there is a "lull" in processing > >> every few seconds as new jobs are started, once the current crop have > >> completed. I assume this is due to an overhead in starting jobs that > >> is only noticable because my jobs are so short. > >> > >> Is there any way I could make this more efficient, so my cores are > >> fully utilised and getting through the whole process is faster? > >> > >> Moon > >> > > >
