Is there any reason why you shuffle the output of the mysqldump through perl? You don't seem to do anything else with the data. Why not let a shell pipe do the work?

system("$cmd > $dumpfile")==0 or die ...;

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Now to start two of them simultaneous you could do a fork (which is clean and easy). Small caveat: You can easily check whether the child process finished, but to get a status/success/failure message, you would need a file or some IPC. But don't worry, some helpful monk will probably tell you about a module that already does most of this.

Just for completeness sake: There is also the possibility of letting the shell fork: 

system("$cmd > $dumpfile &")==0 or die ...;

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The '&' makes sure the system call returns immediately, so that you can start the second dump directly afterwards. To find out whether the child finished you could check the output of ps, but that is a dirty und unsafe hack in my view.

In reply to Re: Using simultaneous threads by jethro
in thread Using simultaneous threads by mhearse

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