[Gate-users] Fwd: Parallel processes sleeping instead of running

[Clemens S.]

Dear fellow Gate users,

I am running multiple (10-100) simulations in parallel on a 64-thread
server (Ubuntu 16.04). They operate from the same input data, but write to
independent output files. I am using Gate version 7.2.
The bash script with which I start the simulations is attached to this
email.

My problem is that the processes take a very long time to switch from
"sleeping" to "running", and that there are at most ~10 processes running
(as opposed to sleeping) at any given time (see attached screenshot of
htop). It seems to me that the server is not working to full capacity
because of this.

Is this normal behavior, or am I doing something wrong?

Thank you very much for your help.

Kind regards
Clemens Schmid
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