Hello,

First, I’d like to thank the developers and community for producing GNU 
Parallel and supporting it.

I use GNU parallel for a particular part of a scientific workflow, and it 
worked great on a previous machine. On a new machine (with many more cores), 
I’m now having it crash sometimes and am having trouble debugging this.

When it crashes, the terminal it is being run from crashes, so I’m left with no 
error message or clues I can find as to why the crash occurred. How can I 
figure this out?

What I’ve tried and outcomes:
1. Restarting the machine and trying again… GNU parallel never crashes the 
first time it is run after a restart. After several runs, it crashes every 
time, and the machine needs to be restarted again before it will work. This 
leads me to suspect some kind of zombie processes may be left behind, but I 
don’t see anything suspicious with `top`.
2. Looking for log files… These could be very helpful and informative if 
they’re out there. I looked in /var/logs/ and in the directory from which 
`parallel` is being run, but haven’t found logs. I haven’t been able to find 
info about logs in documentation. Are there logs I should be able to find, and 
where?

Any advice for diagnosing and troubleshooting the problem would be greatly 
appreciated. Thanks for your time and help.

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