Problem:
I have a worker daemon (gearman) that will be acting as an automated test manager. The manager will receive client requests to start a task or group of tasks and will send those requests to a pool(queue) of workers.

I would like (during app startup) to fork a pool of workers that will be doing long running testing tasks but will be able to communicate with the manager so that the task may be stopped, paused, re-started, status may be queried, etc....

I'm looking for suggestions on which modules might help me best achieve my goal....or just a general guide on the best way to proceed with this type of application design. I have looked at Parallel::ForkManager as well as POE::Component::PreforkDispatch along with Parallel::Fork::BossWorkerAsync but am not sure if these are right for me or if there are more powereful ones out there.

Just looking for some guidance or thoughts on the matter...

In reply to Parent/Child,Boss/Worker->IPC suggestions by josh803316

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