SPUG: parallel fork module

[Chris Wilkes]

On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 02:43:16PM -0700, Brian Hatch wrote:
> I need to write a program that runs a bunch of children
> in parallel, allowing only X to be running at a time.
> There are multiple CPAN modules that make this trivial.
> Anyone have one that they prefer before I investigate
> myself?  For example
> 
> 	Parallel::ForkControl
> 	Parallel::ForkManager
> 	Parallel::Jobs
> 	Schedule::Parallel
> 	etc etc etc
> 
> Yeah, I could write it (again) but thought I'd use
> something that already is popular/good.

I've used POE 
  http://poe.perl.org/
and found it pretty easy to use.

Chris