Just a couple of ideas off the top of my head as I've not done this type of thing:

- instead of a signal for every message, send one for every 10th or some pre-set number. Better would be to get each child to signal on every 10% complete of whatever their task was. This would still cause problems if their tasks were very small though, and it certainly wouldn't ensure that no signals were lost.

- Try a whole different approach using IPC::Shareable, and have a look at this thread which may help.

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I'd like to be able to assign to an luser