If you are truly compute bound, using the multiprocessing module is probably the lightest weight solution (in terms of both memory consumption and implementation difficulty.) If you are I/O bound, using the threading module will usually give you good results. Make sure that you use thread safe storage (like the Queue) to hand data to … Read more
What you need to do is to call pthread_mutex_lock to secure a mutex, like this: pthread_mutex_lock(&mutex); Once you do this, any other calls to pthread_mutex_lock(mutex) will not return until you call pthread_mutex_unlock in this thread. So if you try to call pthread_create, you will be able to create a new thread, and that thread will … Read more
Basically, they use another process that glues them all together into the GUI. Google Chrome creates three different types of processes: browser, renderers, and plug-ins. Browser: There’s only one browser process, which manages the tabs, windows, and “chrome” of the browser. This process also handles all interactions with the disk, network, user input, and display, … Read more
Use xargs: xargs -P <maximum-number-of-process-at-a-time> -n <arguments-per-process> <command> Details here.