parallel hanging when used with pipe

I was using parallel to do blast searches on a large number of biological sequences. cat sequences.fasta | parallel --block 2k --recstart '>' --pipe -j 30 "blastn -db nt -task blastn -evalue 0.1 \ -outfmt '6 qseqid sseqid pident length mismatch gapopen qstart qend sstart send evalue bitscore

Re: Facing issue with running GNU Parallel on a cluster

I tried to debug it more and I realised that it was error with -"Stale NFS file handle". In my loop, I tried renaming the files and directories everytime in the loop and that resolved the issue. On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Ole Tange wrote: > Hi Nanditha. > > On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 7:37 A