Joshua, Thanks for the advice. While this may be true, the complexity of setting up such a solution is far beyond my abilities and time right now. Also, this is more of a generic IPC type question as I could apply a wait/pid solution in a number of more localised scenarios.
Thanks! -M -----Original Message----- From: Joshua Colson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 6:26 AM To: Henry, Mark Patrick Cc: beginners@perl.org Subject: Re: parent / child PID / wait q On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 16:11 -0700, Henry, Mark Patrick wrote: > Hi All, > > Hope this isn't off-topic.. > > I want to: > > *invoke multiple sub-jobs from a script, limited by the amount of > computers I have available/can send those jobs to. > *when I've launched as many jobs as I have machines, wait until one > completes and send that machine another job, and so as others free up > until no more jobs. > > Seems like what I want is something along the lines of fork / > child_pids, and 'wait'. > If you want to be running parrallel 'jobs' on different machines you should probably be looking into openmosix or beowulf clustering. Not that it cannot be done in perl, just the right tool for the right job. -- Joshua Colson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> VoidGate InterNetworks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
