PM2 unable to start with specified number of processes

[rohit12sh]

pm2 start script.js -i 2

I am trying to run a script using PM2 and want it use only 2 core of my CPU. I have only 1 CPU (2.5 GHz Intel Core i7) with 8 core on my Mac.

But when it starts, it takes of my CPU cores in use and creates 8 instances of the script in cluster.

Is it me missing something to run it properly? or It is a bug?

I would like to control the number of cores of CPU to be used by PM2

[ReyVolver]

I've try on my macbook with 0.7.0 and 0.7.5, pm2 start app.js -i 2 create only 2 instances.

What version do you have ?
Have you deleted older instances ?

[rohit12sh]

Thanks for trying it.
pm2 -V = 0.7.0
node -v = v0.10.24

I see one instances per my core.

As a workaround I stop 6 out of 8 processes (pm2 stop) one by one to make 2 instances.

Please see the screen shot:

[soyuka]

Closing, feel free to re-open

[okonsemi]

confirm the issue pm2 start script.js -i 2 does not start specified number of processes in a cluster mode (2 in the example), it completely ignores -i option and starts as many processes as many cores exist.
pm2 -V 2.8.0
node -v 8.10.0