Parallel::ForkManager 0.7.5

Parallel::ForkManager is a simple parallel processing fork manager.

SYNOPSIS

use Parallel::ForkManager;

$pm = new Parallel::ForkManager($MAX_PROCESSES);

foreach $data (@all_data) {
# Forks and returns the pid for the child:
my $pid = $pm->start and next;

... do some work with $data in the child process ...

$pm->finish; # Terminates the child process
}

This module is intended for use in operations that can be done in parallel where the number of processes to be forked off should be limited. Typical use is a downloader which will be retrieving hundreds/thousands of files.