Yes it would still use child processes. It's essentially the same thing,
just with easier management.

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On Jan 5, 2014 7:13 PM, "Johan Alkstål" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Wouldn't that still be using child processes or would it be a completely
> different node app?
>
>
> 2014/1/5 Hongli Lai <[email protected]>
>
>> Forever is a tool for running node processes in the background and
>> keeping them running. It eases the management of processes somewhat.
>>
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>> On Jan 5, 2014 1:15 PM, "Johan Alkstål" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Tony, what do you mean?
>>>
>>>
>>> 2014/1/5 Tony Huang <[email protected]>
>>>
>>>> i think use "forever" instead of raw child process may be a good idea~
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 8:12 PM, Johan Alkstål 
>>>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Thank you all for your replies! Much appreciated.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 2014/1/4 Hongli Lai <[email protected]>
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Friday, January 3, 2014 8:14:51 PM UTC+1, Ryan Dahl wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Johan Alkstål 
>>>>>>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> So should this forked child process always be running (and thus
>>>>>>>> having all simulations use it) or should I fork one for each 
>>>>>>>> simulation run?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I mean if the simulations should be queued and executed in order or
>>>>>>>> in parallel by multiple processes?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> That'll depend on how long these simulations run and how many of
>>>>>>> them there will be - but I would suspect you want on child process per
>>>>>>> simulation.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It also depends on how expensive the startup of your code is. If it
>>>>>> takes 5 seconds to start your simulation program then you should not 
>>>>>> create
>>>>>> a process per simulation. Instead, you should keep the simulation program
>>>>>> running and feed it input to avoid the startup cost.
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