Good day everyone, I've downloaded the latest CVS sources of grep and am about to implement the Parallel/Concurrent feature to grep multiple files at the same time to maximize SMP capable machines. I'm about to dig in when I remembered reading something about something similar available already from the debian repositories a few years ago (either that or I thought I read "parallel grep" instead of the already available "parallel make").
Do you know any grep derivatives that already fork/multithread to handle multiple files? In case there isn't one already out there, would it be a good idea to actually let grep have that capability instead of just running grep in the background multiple times? I know the latter suggestion sounds like it's too big a performance hit to actually consider. And while I'm on the subject of grep being concurrent, would fork be more portable than pthreads? Or would pthreads consume "less resources" on linux at least? TIA PS. I got the idea thanks to Mr. Mike Liguit -- was trying to help him get "better performance" for a script he uses to grep multipl ~100MB log files. To my surprise, I couldn't find parallel grep or concurrent grep, that's why my last resorts were to hack at grep, or make my own "grep wrapper" which spawned child fork processes to handle multiple files. -- Dean Michael C. Berris < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > GPG Key: 0x08AE6EAC http://mikhailberis.blogspot.com Mobile: +63 921 7841815
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