[Raleigh-talk] Parallel::ForkManager and progress

Michael Peters mpeters at plusthree.com
Fri Dec 19 11:21:40 PST 2008


Brad Oaks wrote:

> You could update your counter only once every 10_000 records are
> processed.  I've done that in the past when I didn't want to overrun
> my screen with status messages.  Same would work for this if you don't
> mind the total being off by less than a percent (times the number of
> processes) when you check it.

Yeah, I definitely think I'll be going with a delayed update. So I guess that using a file isn't 
that big of a deal. But I think I'll go the shared memory route since it's something new to play with :)

-- 
Michael Peters
Plus Three, LP



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