Re: perl process management

2003-06-16 Thread Lance
Thanks for that! I use Perl on both Windows and Linux boxes. I sort of played around with fork() but did not understand the advantages of fork, until you mentioned them. Truly, the drag on resources having to spawn a bunch of processes was killing any PC I was putting it on. I did sort of do my

Re: perl process management

2003-06-14 Thread Wiggins d'Anconia
Lance wrote: Hi, I am writing a Perl script ( on a Pentium1 RedHat box ) to monitor some websites on some webservers. There are about 20 servers with 5 sites each. I have been playing with running various parts of the script in parallel, to try to get a perfomance boost, but am at a quandry. If

perl process management

2003-06-04 Thread Lance
Hi, I am writing a Perl script ( on a Pentium1 RedHat box ) to monitor some websites on some webservers. There are about 20 servers with 5 sites each. I have been playing with running various parts of the script in parallel, to try to get a perfomance boost, but am at a quandry. If I run the che