Do you understand the difference between fork and threads?

fork creates a copy of the complete process, the "child". All changes made in the child stay with the child. Once the child exits, all the changes are lost.

You might want to read some of the recent posts about fork, such as Fork Sharing Globals or Forks (not waiting for children).

If you are just confused about your terminology, and say "fork" when you mean "start a thread", then maybe your problem stems from parts of your code that you did not show. Maybe you are not ->joining your threads.

As to your general structure, I highly recommend feeding a few worker threads from a Thread::Queue instead of launching 100 or more threads. If your threads are mostly downloading data, it could also be interesting to use one of the asynchronous frameworks, like AnyEvent::HTTP or a dedicated framework like WWW::Curl.

In reply to Re: Forking Multiple Threads by Corion
in thread Forking Multiple Threads by anshumangoyal

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