Colin McEwan <colin.mce...@gmail.com> writes: > I frequently find myself these days writing shell scripts, to run on > multi-core machines, which could easily exploit lots of parallelism (eg. a > batch of a hundred independent simulations). > > The basic parallelism construct of '&' for async execution is highly > expressive, but it's not useful for this sort of use-case: starting up 100 > jobs at once will leave them competing, and lead to excessive context > switching and paging.
Autotest testsuites, which are written in Bourne shell, do this if you pass in a make-like "-j<N>" option. Have you had a look at how they are implemented?
