Hello, I seem to be running into problems with Windows using Perl Parallel::Forkmanager. The package seems to run fine when I am testing it, but while running it fails sometimes, one of the forked process keeps running and doesn't return to parent.
A new issue found today was that Windows is not able to auto-kill the process from the task-scheduler after a timeout of 3 hours.


pm = new Parallel::ForkManager(threads);
for (i = 0 ; i < threads; i++) {
sleep(i);
pm->start and next;
..... DO Something, involves DB function, lots of files handles, and also
..... using some lock files with flock.
pm->finish;
}
pm->wait_all_children;


Any help will be greatly appreciated.

In reply to Parallel ForkManager Windows issue by drew_s

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