Thanks, that's intriguing, but my perl doesn't seem to like that code.
hartman@ds0207:~/pfmArena> perl test2.pl
Bogus Parallel::Queue: "fork" and "thread" are exclusive at test2.pl l
+ine 17
hartman@ds0207:~/pfmArena> perl -e '@ARGV=("test2.pl"); while (<>) {di
+e $_ if $. == 17}'
my $mgr = Parallel::Queue->construct( 'thread' );
hartman@ds0207:~/pfmArena>
hartman@ds0207:~/pfmArena> perl -V | grep -i thread
osname=linux, osvers=2.6.16, archname=i586-linux-thread-multi
config_args='-ds -e -Dprefix=/usr -Dvendorprefix=/usr -Dinstallusr
+binperl -Dusethreads -Di_db -Di_dbm -Di_ndbm -Di_gdbm -Duseshrplib=tr
+ue -Doptimize=-O2 -march=i586 -mtune=i686 -fmessage-length=0 -Wall -D
+_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -Wall -pipe'
usethreads=define use5005threads=undef useithreads=define usemulti
+plicity=define
cc='cc', ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS
+-DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -Wdeclaration-after-statement
+-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64',
cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS -DDEBUGGI
+NG -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -Wdeclaration-after-statement'
libs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lpthread -lc
perllibs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lpthread -lc
dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-E -
+Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i586-linux-thread-multi/CORE'
PERL_MALLOC_WRAP THREADS_HAVE_PIDS USE_ITHREAD
+S
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i586-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i586-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i586-linux-thread-multi
hartman@ds0207:~/pfmArena> perl -V | grep -i ithread
usethreads=define use5005threads=undef useithreads=define usemulti
+plicity=define
PERL_MALLOC_WRAP THREADS_HAVE_PIDS USE_ITHREAD
+S
hartman@ds0207:~/pfmArena>
Any ideas?