From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2007-06-02T04:57:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Running multiple simultaneous interpreters/scripts

Earle Clubb wrote:
> I have a setup where cron is calling N instances of a particular Ruby
> script simultaneously.  It seems that as N increases, the delay before
> each script executes its first line of code increases by a little less
> than N seconds.  I'm not sure if this is an issue with cron or if it's
> the cumulative startup time for N ruby interpreters.  An ideas on how to
> speed this up to a near constant (~<1sec) delay?  Is there a way to run
> all N scripts simultaneously with a single interpreter process?  Thanks.
> 
> I'm using 1.8.5 on fc6.

Why not fork the N instances from one ruby script called by cron?

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