Hi Remi and all, please reply to list.
On Wed, 24 Aug 2016 11:15:16 -0700 Rémi Matthey-Doret <matt...@zoology.ubc.ca> wrote: > Hello, > > I received the following message > > parallel: This should not happen. You have found a bug. Please contact < > parallel@gnu.org> [..] > Just for the record, with your example parallel-20160822 seems to be working perfectly fine on Mageia Linux v6 x86-64: « shlomif@telaviv1:~$ /home/shlomif/apps/gnu-parallel/bin/parallel --memfree 5G :::: example.txt && echo hello Academic tradition requires you to cite works you base your article on. When using programs that use GNU Parallel to process data for publication please cite: O. Tange (2011): GNU Parallel - The Command-Line Power Tool, ;login: The USENIX Magazine, February 2011:42-47. This helps funding further development; AND IT WON'T COST YOU A CENT. If you pay 10000 EUR you should feel free to use GNU Parallel without citing. To silence the citation notice: run 'parallel --citation'. Thank you GNU parallel hello shlomif@telaviv1:~$ » Can you try building parallel using a perl installed using https://perlbrew.pl/ ? Regards, Shlomi Fish > The version number: > > 20160822 > > The bugid: > > Less than 1 byte free > > The command line being run: > > parallel --memfree 5G :::: example.txt > > The files being read (put the files on a webserver if they are big)-- > > See attachement ("example.txt") > > The issue is very specific to the use of the `memfree` flag. The command > `parallel :::: example.txt` works fine. > > For extra information: I have 24GB of RAM (Only 9GB currently used), 24 > logical cores and run on MAC OS X 10.11.3. > > Thanks a lot for your help! > > Remi > > Remi Matthey-Doret > www.zoology.ubc.ca/~matthey/ > PhD Candidate, M. Whitlock Lab > Beaty Biodiversity Research Center, room 250 > Dept. of Zoology, University of British Columbia > 6270 University Blvd, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4 > Phone: (604) 369-5929
