Mention that 'workers = I(n)' may be safe if the parallel tasks have a low CPU load

HenrikBengtsson · HenrikBengtsson · commit b792b68e21b8 · 2025-10-31T12:23:42.000-07:00
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Package: parallelly
-Version: 1.45.1-9008
+Version: 1.45.1-9009
 Title: Enhancing the 'parallel' Package
 Imports:
     parallel,
diff --git a/R/makeClusterPSOCK.R b/R/makeClusterPSOCK.R
@@ -128,7 +128,10 @@
 #'
 #' See [parallelly.options] for how to change the default thresholds.
 #' This built-in protection can be circumvented by specifying argument
-#' `workers` as an `AsIs` object, e.g. `workers = I(25)` (not recommended).
+#' `workers` as an `AsIs` object, e.g. `workers = I(25)`. We recommend
+#' against using this, unless you know the CPU load for each parallel
+#' worker is very low. This might be safe to do so when the parallel
+#' tasks are mostly in a waiting state, e.g. polling a webserver.
 #'
 #' @example incl/makeClusterPSOCK.R
 #'
diff --git a/man/makeClusterPSOCK.Rd b/man/makeClusterPSOCK.Rd
