Hello, I'm trying to write a very simple stress tester in perl, to make sure mysql is set to handle 100's of connections correctly. I tried to write a script that forks off a few hundred jobs that each use LWP to do a 'get' on a webpage. I just tried to hack the example i could find about forking, but i'm pertty unclear about how it works. Below is the code: 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use LWP::Simple qw(get);

sub getweb {

for ($i=0;$i<200;$i++) {
 if(!defined($pid = fork)) {
    return;
  }

  if($pid) {
    #parent

    $SIG{CHLD} = sub { wait; };
    return;

  } else {
        get("http://www.blahblah.com/blah.php3?xxx");
        return;
        }
  }
}

getweb;

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Thanks, Phil

In reply to how to fork? by chacal

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