# Requesting idle workers to speed up unbalanced processes with pmap

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/requesting-idle-workers-to-speed-up-unbalanced-processes-with-pmap/9838>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** pmap\
**Created:** [March 20, 2018, 3:57pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/requesting-idle-workers-to-speed-up-unbalanced-processes-with-pmap/9838 "2018-03-20T15:57:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![tk3369](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tk3369/32/2824_2.png) [@tk3369](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tk3369)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2018, 8:12pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/requesting-idle-workers-to-speed-up-unbalanced-processes-with-pmap/9838/10 "2018-03-21T20:12:38Z")

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Also see this thread.

> [@Nested pmap() functions don not work as I expect](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/nested-pmap-functions-don-not-work-as-i-expect/9789/3):
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> Nested pmap seems to work fine. See my [notebook](https://github.com/tk3369/julia-notebooks/blob/master/pmap%20inside%20pmap%20(juliabox).ipynb) for an example.

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