On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 17:50 -0400, Jonathan Vanasco wrote: > > Incidentally, I don't see why your Python job queue can't just > > execute a Perl script to do this job. > > didn't really think of that :) > > although if i did that, i'd have to do some crazy PID watching thing, > to make sure I don't have too many jobs running at once...
In my Perl job queue system, we just limit the number of processes it will fork using Parallel::ForkManager. - Perrin