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mwaskom / lyman

Data pipelines and analysis library for functional MRI
http://www.cns.nyu.edu/~mwaskom/software/lyman
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Nodes that use convert binary consume > 100% CPU #184

Closed mwaskom closed 5 years ago

mwaskom commented 5 years ago

This can overload the system when the nipype multiprocessing is using more than half of the local nodes (and presumably would be an issue with a managed parallel executing environment too).

I think it can be controlled with the MAGICK_THREAD_LIMIT environment variable.

See http://www.imagemagick.org/script/resources.php#environment