Re: Spawning jobs in a staggered start?

[Ole Tange]

On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 8:43 PM, John <da_audiophile@yahoo.com> wrote:
> d>>  Is there a way to have parallel spawn jobs on a delayed start with 1 sec
>
>> delay between each one?
>>
>> No. Can you elaborate why that would be useful to you?
>
>
> I am using parallel to send jobs to a compiler in an i686 chroot via the 
> schroot command.  I have found it to be very fragile and breaks when parallel 
> hits it with multiple requests at the same time.  If I could add a 1 or 2 sec 
> delay between starts, it would be fine.  Is this something you can add easily?

Try git version:

seq 10  | time parallel --delay 0.2 echo

/Ole