[chef] Re: Parallel execute resource tasks

[Brad Knowles < >]

On Feb 15, 2012, at 10:05 PM, Van Fossan,Randy wrote:

> I have a recipe that has 4 disk tasks that each one takes about 10 minutes. 
>   I would like to execute the tasks with an & at the end to fork off the 
> process and run them in parallel.  However, I am not sure how to track that 
> all four are complete.
> 
> I suppose, I could loop, test and sleep for a file completed at the end of 
> each task and then continue.   
> 
> Has anyone have any better suggestions for handling forked processes and 
> tracking completion?

Doesn't gnu parallel help track this sort of stuff?

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Brad Knowles 
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