On 12 December 2015 at 00:47, Josef wells <[email protected]>
wrote:

> That also says that this is for buffering output files, that is not what
> I'm seeing g in ~/.parallel
>
> Josef
>
Please answer below and not top-post then it is easier to follow the
discussion.

linelen-<hostname> is something with the maximum length of the command-line
on the remote-hosts.
These files should be small so it should be ok if they are located on a
network share.

Are you using -X or -m ?

Regards
Martin



> On Dec 11, 2015 5:42 PM, "Martin Møller Skarbiniks Pedersen" <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On 11 December 2015 at 23:16, Josef wells <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Normal operation of parallel seems to use ~/.parallel/tmp in some
>> > cases this is a long-distance network drive for me.. I'm unclear on
>> > exactly what goes here, the files mostly look like
>> > "linelen-<hostname>".
>> >
>> > Is there a way to relocate this area?
>>
>>
>> From the excellent man-page that comes with GNU Parallel under
>>
>> "OPTIONS" it says:
>>
>>        --tmpdir dirname
>>                 Directory for temporary files. GNU parallel normally
>> buffers output into temporary files in /tmp. By setting --tmpdir you can
>> use a different dir for the files. Setting --tmpdir is equivalent to
>> setting $TMPDIR.
>>
>> and further down under "ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES" it says:
>>
>>        $TMPDIR  Directory for temporary files. See: --tmpdir.
>>
>>
>> Regards
>> Martin M. S. Pedersen
>>
>>


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