From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2007-06-02T18:00:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Running multiple simultaneous interpreters/scripts

On 01.06.2007 21:57, Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> 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?

Or use threads to implement parallel execution.  OP, what do your 
scripts do?

Kind regards

	robert