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I doesn't work. On a machine with 12 cores and 5 jobs running on 5 of them from a previous parallel command, parallel --load 100% ... started 12 new jobs such that more jobs were running than cores were available.

stefanbschneider
– stefanbschneider

2017-01-30 09:10:47 +00:00
Commented Jan 30, 2017 at 9:10
But where the 5 actually using the CPU? If they were idle, GNU Parallel will ignore them.

Ole Tange
– Ole Tange

2017-01-30 14:12:50 +00:00
Commented Jan 30, 2017 at 14:12
The 5 cores seemed to be fully used on htop. Or is there another way to check?

stefanbschneider
– stefanbschneider

2017-01-30 15:33:53 +00:00
Commented Jan 30, 2017 at 15:33

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