PID 28907 Forked worker in slot 2 with pid 28910 for chunk 1 Forked worker in slot 1 with pid 28909 for chunk 2 After 1: $VAR1 = { '00 28910' => '1491580974', '01 28909' => '1491580974' }; After 0: $VAR1 = { '00 28910' => '1491580974', '01 28909' => '1491580974' }; Forked worker in slot 1 with pid 28909 for chunk 3 Forked worker in slot 2 with pid 28910 for chunk 4 After 2: $VAR1 = { '00 28910' => '1491580974', '01 28909' => '1491580974', '02 28909' => '1491580975' }; After 3: $VAR1 = { '00 28910' => '1491580974', '01 28909' => '1491580974', '02 28909' => '1491580975', '03 28910' => '1491580975' }; ^CHello from INT Hello from INT Hello from INT