in reply to Re^3: Sequential processing with fork.
in thread Sequential processing with fork.

I was unable to install "forks" eg( use forks) on my windows server 2012 running Dwimperl. So I couldn't test the above code.

The problem I am having is that each of the processes take from 30min to occasionally 2.5 hours to finish, the "wait" seems to be giving up. I can successfully run the first batch of ten, but no method I have tried has ever started the next process when one of the first ten finishes...

Is there a wait time limit var I can adjust? Or is that machine specific?

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Re^5: Sequential processing with fork.
by Anonymous Monk on Aug 09, 2015 at 01:49 UTC

    Are you running your control program under a webserver? Webservers will time things out on you.

    Also, is the control program running on Windows? Fork is faked on Windows.

    Please state OS.

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      Windows Server 2012 R2, but I'm not starting it via IIS it's just an icon on the desktop that I double click. I have NEVER been able to get this to work with ANY of the given examples.
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        well, on windows, you don't need  use forks; as threads work on windows as does the example ikegami posted
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