First search http://groups.google.com for "LWP Parallel::ForkManager"

I don't see why LWP::Parallel wasn't showing a speed improvement unless you set the max_req too low. $ua->max_req(30) defaults to 5.

I don't think threads will help you, except to give realtime progress reports for each download. Try this: (there are similar examples on groups.google). 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use Parallel::ForkManager;
use LWP::Simple;
use LWP::UserAgent ;
use HTTP::Status ;
use HTTP::Request ;

%urls = ('drudge'=> 'http://www.drudgereport.com',
'rush'     =>'http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/today.guest.html',
'yahoo' => 'http://www.yahoo.com',
'cds' => 'http://www.cdsllc.com/',);

foreach $myURL (sort(values(%urls))){
   $count++;
   print "Count is $count\n";
   $document =  DOCUMENT_RETRIEVER($myURL);
}

sub DOCUMENT_RETRIEVER{
 $myURL=$_[0];
 $mit = $myURL;
 print "Commencing DOCUMENT_RETRIEVER number $iteration
 for $mit\n";
 print "Iteration is $iteration and Count is $count\n";

for  ($iteration = $count; $iteration <= $count;$iteration++){
 $name = $iteration;
 print "NAME $name\n" ;
 my $pm=new Parallel::ForkManager(30);
 $pm->start and next;
 print "Starting Child Process $iteration for $mit\n" ;
 $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
 $ua->agent("$0/0.1 " . $ua->agent);
 $req = new HTTP::Request 'GET' => "$mit";
 $res = $ua->request($req, "$name.html");
 print "Process $iteration Complete\n" ;
 $pm->finish;
 $pm->wait_all_childs;
 print "Waiting on children\n";
}

undef $name;
}

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In reply to Re: running multiple LWP gets by zentara
in thread running multiple LWP gets by gferguson

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