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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Background Process Shell Scripting Post 302184701 by aigles on Saturday 12th of April 2008 01:43:41 PM
Old 04-12-2008
The following script show a possible way (the SUBMIT_JOB_LIMIT is set the maximun instance count) :

Code:
#!/usr/bin/bash
#submit_jobs

the_job() {
   echo "$(date +%T) - Start of job $1"
   sleep $((RANDOM % 30))
   echo "$(date +%T) - End   of job $1"
}

SUBMIT_JOB_LIMIT=5
SUBMIT_JOB_SLEEP=5

submit_job() {
   job_act=$(jobs | wc -l)
   while ((job_act >= $SUBMIT_JOB_LIMIT))
   do
      sleep $SUBMIT_JOB_SLEEP
      job_act=$(jobs | wc -l)
   done
   (( job_cnt += 1 ))
   the_job $job_cnt &
}

for ((i=1; i<=10; i++))
do
   submit_job $i
done

An execution example :
Code:
$ submit_jobs
19:37:38 - Start of job 3
19:37:39 - Start of job 4
19:37:39 - Start of job 5
19:37:38 - Start of job 1
19:37:38 - Start of job 2
19:37:40 - End   of job 1
19:37:45 - Start of job 6
19:37:47 - End   of job 3
19:37:51 - Start of job 7
19:37:52 - End   of job 2
19:37:55 - End   of job 6
19:37:56 - Start of job 8
19:37:56 - Start of job 9
19:37:58 - End   of job 4
19:37:59 - End   of job 5
$ 19:38:02 - Start of job 10
19:38:06 - End   of job 9
19:38:14 - End   of job 8
19:38:20 - End   of job 7
19:38:29 - End   of job 10

Jean-Pierre.
 

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faxq(1) 						       mgetty+sendfax manual							   faxq(1)

NAME
faxq - display fax jobs queued by faxspool(1) SYNOPSIS
faxq [-osa] [-v] [-r] [-P<job><prio>] DESCRIPTION
Display the fax queue set up by faxspool(1). faxq looks for all the jobs queued by faxspool(1) to /var/spool/fax/outgoing/*. For each job in the queue, faxq displays some status infor- mations about it. If no options are specified, one line per queued fax job is printed, displaying the job number, sender, number of pages and target fax number. OPTIONS
-v Tells faxq to print a more verbose report for each job (multiple lines). -o Show old jobs, already sent but still in the queue directory, too. -s Show suspended jobs (stopped because of too many fatal errors during sending). You can restart those jobs with faxq -r -a Show all jobs (active, old, suspended). -r Restart suspended jobs. Every suspended job in the queue (that you have write permissions for) will be requeued. Use faxrm to delete jobs that you do not want to be sent! -P <job> <prio> Change the priority of fax job <job> to <prio>. Example: "faxq -P F000247 3". BUGS
faxq doesn't handle time scheduling yet. SEE ALSO
faxrunq(1), faxspool(1), faxrm(1), faxqueue(5) AUTHOR
faxq is Copyright (C) 1993 by Gert Doering, <gert@greenie.muc.de>. greenie 27 Oct 93 faxq(1)
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