You could use an sshloginfile with just the localhost and the number of processes. Something like this in the file: 4/:
Then change the number in the file and you'll change the number of jobs next time a job is finished. -- Joe On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 4:52 PM Stuart Anderson <s...@caltech.edu> wrote: > Is it possible to signal a running parallel process to change the value of > -P N ? > > Currently if I need to change that I use pkill -STOP parallel to stop any > new jobs from starting and then kill/restart parallel with a new value, but > it would nice to be able to do that without having to drain the queue (or > losing stdout/stderr during draining). > > P.S. This is fantastic tool, and I wish I had upgraded from xargs years > ago! > > Thanks. > > -- > Stuart Anderson > s...@caltech.edu > > > > >