Set number of threads

[widdowquinn]

Set number of threads

[widdowquinn]

Not yet, @ddomman - but it should be a fairly straightforward change. I'll make it in the v0.2 branch, when I do.

FWIW, I think using all the threads available to you is generally a good thing ;)

[widdowquinn]

That should be the appropriate option enabled in the v0.2 branch with commit 5d50a. If this doesn't do the trick, I'll reopen the issue.

To use the new option, add the --workers n argument to the command-line. This will default to the maximum available number of threads if not specified, and cannot use more than the available number of cores if the specified value is too high. For example:

./average_nucleotide_identity.py -v -f \
  -i tests/test_ani_data/ \
  -o tests/test_ANIm_output/ \
  -g --gformat png,pdf,eps \
  --classes tests/test_ani_data/classes.tab --labels tests/test_ani_data/labels.tab \
  --workers 1

should use a single core.

[sarah872]

Although I specify --workers, mummer/nucmer is still running on the maximum number of cores. How can I limit the number of cores for nucmer?