Open inkrement opened 6 years ago
You are right. I think it should be the number of processes after reading this page http://www.parallelr.com/r-with-parallel-computing/ . We named it cores
because if this option is left blank, the function detectCores()
from package parallel
will be called.
Ok I see, but a small note in the docs would be useful :)
The function
gsynth
has a parameter calledcores
, which is defined asIt seems like this is not the number of cores which are used. Instead it defines the number of processes. Specifically, each of those processes can use (at least for some tasks) multiple cores. Fore example, on my test system this parameter was set to 4, but those 4 processes utilised all 32 physical cores.