childprocess-queue
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Use `childprocess` module freely while limiting the amount of concurrent processes
Use childprocess module freely while limiting the amount of concurrent processes
fork, spawn, exec, execFile with the usual signature, with exception of returning an id and not a ChildProcess.onCreate callback to the options that you pass, to get a notification when the process was created. One argument will be passed back, containing the ChildProcess instance.newQueue to receive a separate queue that you can use like the main ChildProcessQueue object.setMaxProcesses to set the maximum concurrent processes.getMaxProcesses to get the maximum concurrent processes (defaults to 5).getCurrentProcessCount to get the number of currently running processes.getCurrentProcesses to get an array of the currently running processes.getCurrentQueueSize to get the number of processes waiting in the queue.removeFromQueue with an id to remove a pending process from the queue.npm install --save childprocess-queue
If you have anything to contribute, or functionality that you lack - you are more than welcome to participate in this! If anyone wishes to contribute unit tests - that also would be great :-)
If you want to buy me a beer, you are very welcome to
Thanks :-)
All the code here is under MIT license. Which means you could do virtually anything with the code. I will appreciate it very much if you keep an attribution where appropriate.
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Copyright (c) 2013 Daniel Cohen Gindi (danielgindi@gmail.com)
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Use `childprocess` module freely while limiting the amount of concurrent processes
We found that childprocess-queue demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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