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Python library for Reservoir Computing using Echo State Networks
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Disable multiprocess for Windows Anaconda? #2

Closed jabowery closed 6 years ago

jabowery commented 6 years ago

I tried setting nWorkers=1 in the call to SpatioTemporalESN but it still hangs upon line 71's call to Manager().

This appears related to a problem with the Windows implementation of the multiprocess module.

Is there a simple way of bypassing the use of multiprocessing?

zimmerrol commented 6 years ago

Can you please add the code you used? Or did you use one of the example notebooks? This might help to detect the real problem.

At the momen there is no way to bypass the multiprocessing other than setting the number of workers to 1. But i do not think that this is a Windows problem, as I mainly develop on a Windows 10 machine. Therefore, the code is tested to be working on a Anaconda Windows 10 setup and at least on one Unix version.

Edit: Are you using the latest source code from this repository or are you using the pip package? If you are using the later then this might be the problem, as the pip package does not include the latest bug fixes.

zimmerrol commented 6 years ago

I made some vast improvements on the SpatioTemporalESN in the past commits in regards of the performance (on Linux as well as on Windows). So maybe your issue is now solved, too. If this is not the case, feel free to open this issue again.