Re: [9fans] threads vs forks

2009-03-04 Thread Vincent Schut
John Barham wrote: On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 3:52 AM, hugo rivera wrote: I have to launch many tasks running in parallel (~5000) in a cluster running linux. Each of the task performs some astronomical calculations and I am not pretty sure if using fork is the best answer here. First of all, all t

Re: [9fans] threads vs forks

2009-03-04 Thread Vincent Schut
hugo rivera wrote: Thanks for the advice. Nevertheless I am in no position to decide what pieces of software the cluster will run, I just have to deal with what I have, but anyway I can suggest other possibilities. Well, depends on how you define 'software the cluster will run'. Do you mean cl

Re: [9fans] threads vs forks

2009-03-04 Thread Vincent Schut
ou could just live with these 28 seconds more? Just reading this message might already have taken you more than those 28 seconds... Vincent. And I am not really sure if I have access to all the nodes, so I can install pp on each one of them. 2009/3/4, Vincent Schut : hugo rivera