Re: Problems with GNU Parallel and ulimit

[Marius Bakke]

Arun Isaac <address@hidden> writes:

> Leo Famulari writes:
>
>> On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 12:46:25PM +1000, Ben Woodcroft wrote:
>>> On 14/08/17 12:31, Arun Isaac wrote:
>>> > Does `parallel' work for anybody? When I run
>>> > 
>>> > $ ls | parallel echo
>>> > 
>>> > I get the following error message, and nothing happens.
>>> It works fine for me using Guix on a foreign OS, and has since I can
>>> remember.
>>> ben
>>
>> Same here. Arun, can you give some more details about your system?
>
> This is probably a problem only on GuixSD systems. Could you try on
> GuixSD instead of using Guix on a foreign distro?

I tested it on GuixSD, works fine. Are you trying the command in a
folder with > 1024 files perhaps? What does `ulimit -n` print?

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