Github user mxm commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/1360#issuecomment-158020011 I would also be in favor of changing the local execution to always use the maximum specified parallelism as the number of task slots. IMHO the current behavior is not intuitive. The default parallelism currently acts as a maximum parallelism in local execution.
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