testsuite: Minor speedups.

doc/release_new_version

@@ -171,16 +171,52 @@ cc:Sandro Cazzaniga <kharec@mandriva.org>,
    Ryoichiro Suzuki <ryoichiro.suzuki@gmail.com>,
    Jesse Alama <jesse.alama@gmail.com>
 
-Subject: GNU Parallel 20130222 ('Chelyabinsk') released
+Subject: GNU Parallel 20130422 ('Loikaw') released
 
-GNU Parallel 20130222 ('Chelyabinsk') has been released. It is
+GNU Parallel 20130422 ('Loikaw') has been released. It is
 available for download at: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parallel/
 
 New in this release:
 
-* GNU Parallel accepted for openSUSE.
+* HPUX CPU/core detection. Thanks to Javier Tarradas.
+
+* --load now uses 'ps' to see immediately see the number of running
+  processes instead of 'uptime' thus making --load react much faster.
+
+* Testing on Centos 3.9 revealed a lot of compability bugs. Some of
+  these required quite extensive changes making this release beta
+  quality.
+
+*  --retries works with --onall.
+
+* The new --load computation now works on FreeBSD 7.
+
+* --nice works under tcsh.
+
+* GNU Parallel is officially supported in NetBSD.
+  http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/parallel/parallel/README.html
+
+* GNU Parallel is accepted for openSUSE.
   http://software.opensuse.org/package/gnu_parallel
 
+* GNU Parallel can be installed under Microsoft Windows (CygWin).
+  http://blogs.msdn.com/b/hpctrekker/archive/2013/03/30/preparing-and-uploading-datasets-for-hdinsight.aspx
+
+* Job advert that requires GNU Parallel competence.
+  http://versium.com/about/careers/
+
+* Parallelizing Batch Jobs for Fun and Profit.
+  http://mikeseidle.com/tech/programming/2013/03/parallelizing-batch-jobs
+
+* Processing Transcription Start Sites(TSS) for the entire Mouse genome.
+  http://qbrc.swmed.edu/2013/03/gnu-parallel-speeding-up-unix-commands-and-scripts/
+
+* GNU parallel is used throughout Scrimer
+  http://scrimer.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
+
+* Identifying big movie files (German).
+  http://blackappsolutions.wordpress.com/2013/03/23/wenn-der-plattenplatz-knapp-wird-filme-identifizieren-die-viel-platz-belegen/
+
 * Bug fixes and man page updates.
 
 

testsuite/tests-to-run/parallel-local11.sh

@@ -3,13 +3,13 @@
 # Simple jobs that never fails
 # Each should be taking 100s and be possible to run in parallel
 # I.e.: No race conditions, no logins
-cat <<'EOF' | sed -e 's/;$/; /;s/$SERVER1/'$SERVER1'/;s/$SERVER2/'$SERVER2'/' | stdout parallel -j4 -k -L1
+cat <<'EOF' | sed -e 's/;$/; /;s/$SERVER1/'$SERVER1'/;s/$SERVER2/'$SERVER2'/' | stdout parallel -k -j4 -L1
 echo '### Test if we can deal with output > 4 GB'
-  echo | niceload --io 10 parallel -q perl -e '"\$a=\"x\"x1000000;for(0..4300){print \$a}"' | md5sum
+#  echo | niceload --io 10 parallel -q perl -e '"\$a=\"x\"x1000000;for(0..4300){print \$a}"' | md5sum
-#  echo | parallel -q perl -e '"\$a=\"x\"x1000000;for(0..4300){print \$a}"' | md5sum
+  echo | parallel -q perl -e '$a="x"x1000000;for(0..4300){print $a}' | md5sum
 
 echo "### Test Force outside the file handle limit, 2009-02-17 Gave fork error"
-  (echo echo Start; seq 1 20000 | perl -pe 's/^/true /'; echo echo end) | stdout parallel -uj 0 | grep -v 'processes took|adjusting'
+  (echo echo Start; seq 1 20000 | perl -pe 's/^/true /'; echo echo end) | stdout parallel -uj 0 | egrep -v 'processes took|adjusting'
 
 echo '### Test of --retries on unreachable host'
   seq 2 | stdout parallel -k --retries 2 -v -S 4.3.2.1,: echo

testsuite/tests-to-run/parallel-local8.sh

@@ -8,14 +8,13 @@ echo PARALLEL=$PARALLEL
 
 for i in $(seq 2 10); do
   i2=$[i*i]
-  seq $i2 | parallel -j0 --load 300% -kX echo {} |wc
+  seq $i2 | parallel -j0 --load 300% -kX echo {} | wc
-  seq 1 ${i2}0000 | nice parallel -kj20 --recend "\n" --spreadstdin gzip -9 | zcat | sort -n | md5sum
+  seq 1 ${i2}0000 | nice parallel -kj20 --recend "\n" --spreadstdin gzip -1 | zcat | sort -n | md5sum
 done
 
 echo "### Test if --load blocks. Bug.";
-seq 1 1000 | parallel -kj2 --load 300% --recend "\n" --spreadstdin gzip -9 | zcat | sort -n | md5sum
+seq 1 1000 | parallel -kj2 --load 300% --recend "\n" --spreadstdin gzip -1 | zcat | sort -n | md5sum
-seq 1 1000 | parallel -kj0 --load 300% --recend "\n" --spreadstdin gzip -9 | zcat | sort -n | md5sum
+seq 1 1000 | parallel -kj0 --load 300% --recend "\n" --spreadstdin gzip -1 | zcat | sort -n | md5sum
 
-seq 1 1000000 | parallel -kj0 --recend "\n" --spreadstdin gzip -9 | zcat | sort -n | md5sum
+seq 1 1000000 | parallel -kj0 --recend "\n" --spreadstdin gzip -1 | zcat | sort -n | md5sum
-seq 1 1000000 | nice parallel -kj20 --recend "\n" --spreadstdin gzip -9 | zcat | sort -n | md5sum
+seq 1 1000000 | parallel -kj20 --recend "\n" --spreadstdin gzip -1 | zcat | sort -n | md5sum
-