And it is possible to change this? What shell would you suggest?
On 6 February 2015 at 14:58, Felipe Alvarez <felipe.alva...@gmail.com> wrote: > echo $SHELL > > Bash is default in cygwin > > > 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 >> >> >> >
