in reply to Re: Advice on Efficient Large-scale Web Crawling
in thread Advice on Efficient Large-scale Web Crawling

How would I use that in the context of Parallel::ForkManager?

Not tested, but just calling POSIX::_exit (as suggested by Celada) instead of $fm->finnish should do the trick.

Or you can switch to my own Proc::Queue module. I am sure it supports exiting via POSIX::_exit.