#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use Parallel::ForkManager; my $max_forks = 3; my $fork = new Parallel::ForkManager($max_forks); my @array = (1..1000); # on start callback $fork->run_on_start( sub { my $pid = shift; } ); # on finish callback $fork->run_on_finish( sub { my ($pid, $exit, $ident, $signal, $core) = @_; if ($core){ print "PID $pid core dumped.\n"; } } ); # forking code while (@array){ my @chunk = splice @array, 0, 200; $fork->start and next; sleep(2); db_save(@chunk); $fork->finish; } sub db_save { my @a = @_; print "$a[1]\n"; } $fork->wait_all_children;