Win32::ProcFarm::Pool - manages a pool of child processes
use Win32::ProcFarm::Pool; $Pool = Win32::ProcFarm::Pool->new($poolsize, $portnum, $scriptname, Win32::GetCwd); foreach $i (@list) { $Pool->add_waiting_job($i, 'child_sub', $i); } $Pool->do_all_jobs(0.1); %ping_data = $Pool->get_return_data; $Pool->clear_return_data; foreach $i (@list) { print "$i:\t$ping_data{$i}->[0]\n"; }
This installs with MakeMaker as part of Win32::ProcFarm.
To install via MakeMaker, it's the usual procedure - download from CPAN, extract, type "perl Makefile.PL", "nmake" then "nmake install". Don't do an "nmake test" because the I haven't written a test suite yet.
See Docs/tutorial.pod for more information.
Docs/tutorial.pod
The new method creates a new Win32::ProcFarm::Pool object (amazing, eh!). It takes 5 parameters:
new
Win32::ProcFarm::Pool
This indicates the number of threads that should be created.
This indicates the port number to use for the listener.
The script name to execute for the child processes.
The working directory to use when running the script. If this is the same directory the script is in, the script name can be specified without a path.
A hash of options. The current options are:
Indicates how long jobs should be allowed to execute before they are deemed to have blocked. Blocked jobs will be terminated and a new process created to take their place.
Indicates how many listeners should be allocated on the port object. During thread instantiation, this controls how many unconnected threads can be spun off. For optimum thread creation speed, this should be set to one more than the number of processors. By default, this is set to three. Setting this to too high a value does not appear to have much effect on the overall thread creation rate, but setting it to two low a value (such as one) could have a dramatic effect on the thread creation rate for multiprocessor machines.
If specified, the attached subroutine will be called as soon as each job finishes executing. The subroutine will be passed the key name and then return values. This allows for asynchronous reponses to job execution, rather than having to wait for the entire pool to finish running before operating on the results.
The add_threads method call adds additional threads to a pool. The only accepted parameter is the number of new threads to add.
add_threads
The min_threads increases the number of threads in the pool to the specified value. If there are more threads in the pool that the specified value, the number of threads in the pool is unchanged.
min_threads
The add_waiting_job method adds a job to the waiting pool. It takes three parameters:
add_waiting_job
This should be a unique identifier that will be used to retrieve the return values from the return data hash.
The name of the subroutine that the child process will execute.
A list of parameters for that subroutine.
The do_all_jobs command will execute all the jobs in the waiting pool. The first passed parameter specifies the number of seconds to wait between sweeps through the thread pool to check for completed jobs. The number of seconds can be fractional (i.e. 0.1 for a tenth of a second). The second passed parameter specifies the minimum interval between jobs becoming eligible to run.
do_all_jobs
Return the return_data hash, indexed on the unique key passed initially.
Clears out the return_data hash.
These methods are considered internal methods. Child classes of Win32::ProcFarm::Pool may modify these methods in order to change the behavior of the resultant Pool object.
To install Win32::ProcFarm::Port, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Win32::ProcFarm::Port
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Win32::ProcFarm::Port
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.