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If you set cfcache='' then mpicasa will run for days or longer (I never let it finish naturaly). Perhaps it is trying to create a cfcache but is deadlocked with itself.
PSF Creation
2020-06-30 15:44:46 SEVERE tclean::task_tclean::@nmpost071:MPIClient Exception from task_tclean : No images named VIP_iter0 found on disk. No partial images found either.Multi-term SumWt does not exist. Please create PSFs or Residuals.
Overall slowness
Questions
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