funny interaction, worker 0 being a gen worker that runs a non-persistent gen is always available to receive gen work. so to prevent worker 0 from generating extra, set sim max. another way to prevent extra non-persistent gen calls is set gen_on_worker=True

Author: jlnav

libensemble/tests/functionality_tests/test_executor_hworld_timeout.py

@@ -37,7 +37,6 @@
     nworkers, is_manager, libE_specs, _ = parse_args()
 
     libE_specs["disable_resource_manager"] = True
-    libE_specs["gen_on_worker"] = True
 
     cores_per_task = 1
     logical_cores = multiprocessing.cpu_count()
@@ -93,7 +92,7 @@
 
     persis_info = add_unique_random_streams({}, nworkers + 1)
 
-    exit_criteria = {"wallclock_max": 10}
+    exit_criteria = {"wallclock_max": 10, "sim_max": nworkers}
 
     # TCP does not support multiple libE calls
     if libE_specs["comms"] == "tcp":