The machines I would be running this on are all dual processor (sun or intel). But the main thing is the actual overhead of my process (opening a socket to a local http server) is very low but the time for the system to run a 50k line file in serial vs splitting that file in two and running it is double for the one serial process vs 2 of them. I wanted to be able to run this script via a cron and have it do all the things automagically that I am currently doing by hand (splitting file into 8 then running 8 processes of my current script then concatenating it's output.) Unfortunately I can't try 5.8 as it has a few bugs with some of our other code that works fine with 5.6.1

Cheers,

Mark

In reply to Re: Re: Forking processes / children / threads by msergeant
in thread Forking processes / children / threads by msergeant

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