Re: GNU Parallel Bug Reports Problem with --nice in 20111022

[Ole Tange]

On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Ole Tange <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Bill Wyatt <address@hidden> wrote:
>> OS: CentOS 5.7, kernel 2.6.18-274.1.1.el5 (AMD Opteron 2222SE)
>>
>> Version 20111022 seems to have broken --nice. Version 20110822 works.
>>
>> Example:
>>   parallel --nice 8 echo ::: *
>>   nice: Badly formed number.
>>   [... once for each copy of echo forked ...]
>
> I cannot reproduce this (I run Debian). Can you run:
>
>  seq 1 2 | parallel -D --nice 8 echo

I just tested with CentOS 5.7 from
http://virtualboxes.org/images/centos/  and I still cannot reproduce
your error.

Maybe it is something in your .parallel/config? So try:

  mv .parallel .parallel.gone
  parallel --nice 8 echo ::: *

/Ole