startLocalWorkers does not always start any workers

[travisleith]

The first time running this code

library(doRedis)
options('redis:num'=TRUE)
registerDoRedis('jobs')
startLocalWorkers(n=10, queue='jobs')
getDoParWorkers()

worked fine. But now every time I run it I get 0 local workers. I tried running the redis .msi and repairing redis, still get 0 workers. I am using Windows and I have this issue using MSOpenTech redis 2.8.2400 and 3.0.501

Incidentally, if I start a worker on a different machine and add it to the job queue above, it connects and start processing jobs. But it only works with redisWorker, not startLocalWorkers from the remote machine. My host machine is running R 3.2.4 and the remote machine is running 3.2.2

[bwlewis]

Thanks, I'm trying to replicated it today on a Windows box. I'll let you know what I find.