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Utility which provides the ability to distribute a task across a fixed number of processes, for better utilization of multiprocessing

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Disttask is a utility which provides the ability to distribute a task across a fixed number of processes, for better utilization of multiprocessing.

Use it with existing single-threaded/process tools and scripts to take full advantage of your computer’s resources.

Usage: ./disttask [cmd] [concurrent tasks] [argset]
Use a %s in [cmd] where you want the args to go. use %d for the pipe number.

The application runs at most “concurrent task” # of processes ( good to match total number of processors available to this number - 1 ). It captures stdout and stderr to ensure that any output is not intertwined between the applications.

Each command should specify a “%s” to where each argument will go (one argument from @argset per application). “%d” is also available as the pipe number, but may not be very useful.

Example:

./disttask “echo %d %s” 3 “this” “is” “some” “text” “blah” “whooptie” “Doo”
0 this
1 is
2 some
0 text
1 blah
2 whooptie
0 Doo

Another Example:

Run pyflakes, using 10 simultanious processes, on all python files in subdirectories (requires shopt -s globstar. Notice the backticks, not single-quotes.)

./disttask “pyflakes %s” 10 echo **/*.py

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