How can I speed up runs safely?

The main controls are:

• --n-jobs: number of parallel jobs (pipeline-level parallelism)
• --threads: threads per job (tool-level parallelism; available in some modules)

Tuning guide

• Start with --n-jobs equal to available CPU cores divided by 2.
• Increase gradually while monitoring RAM and disk I/O.
• If the machine becomes unstable (heavy swapping, stalled I/O), reduce --n-jobs first.
• Use higher --threads only when the underlying step benefits from multithreading.

Rules of thumb

• Many small files/steps: increase --n-jobs.
• Few compute-heavy steps: balance --n-jobs and --threads.
• Shared servers/HPC login nodes: be conservative and follow local policy.

Example

cartloader run_cartload2 ... --n-jobs 8 --threads 4

See also:

• FICTURE Analysis reference
• Asset Packaging reference