Hilary James Oliver

I think number of cores is a good guess. It's not entirely trial and error: you can monitor (e.g. with `top` or something nicer like `htop`) system processes when problems...

Update: we should have a way of alerting users to a log-jammed process pool, probably the cause of this.

I think we have (probably) recently eliminated the last way to get properly "stuck in ready". - but just in case, we could allow (say) `cylc trigger` to reset a...

> the pool limit you configured is controlling resource usage. (Or the default limit that you didn't even know about, to be fair :grin: ) > How about logging a...

For users? I don't think it is. We should do that while we're at it (fixing this issue, that is).

I'm not convinced the benefits are worth the effort and - by some measures at least - extra complexity (even for users, who will likely have to know the base...

OK, fair points - agreed.

> To add to this, today I have been using the following pattern which also incorporates cylc clean: (I do this too)

> I have it in my head that it'd be nice if Cylc Reminded people what the contraction was every time they use it. @wxtim I quite like this idea....

Documented deficiency, before implementation.