task spooler
task spooler is a Unix batch system where the tasks spooled run one after the other. The amount of jobs to run at once can be set at any time. Each user in each system has his own job queue. The tasks are run in the correct context (that of enqueue) from any shell/process, and its output/results can be easily watched. It is very useful when you know that your commands depend on a lot of RAM, a lot of disk use, give a lot of output, or for whatever reason it's better not to run them all at the same time, while you want to keep your resources busy for maximum benfit. Its interface allows using it easily in scripts.
| Licenses | GPL |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | POSIX |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases
- 20 Feb 2009 09:51
Changes: A problem in the -t and -c options, introduced in 0.6.3, was fixed.
- 19 Feb 2009 08:45
Changes: A bug on -c and -t was fixed. Support was added for arbitrary dependencies (-D). Version checking on the client-server protocol was added. The server was made to chdir to / to avoid umount problems.
- 20 Dec 2008 17:23
Changes: Bugfixes were made for the -w option, for clients dying, and for the error log file. The -S option now returns the number of slots set. The -i option shows a detailed exit status.
- 03 Nov 2008 00:52
Changes: This release adds support for the TS_SLOTS env variable, removes references to /usr for nix, and fixes "-m" and error handling, among others.
- 16 Jul 2008 21:02
Changes: This release adds support for setting the amount of jobs to run at once, which allows taking advantage of multi-core machines. Some bugs have been fixed.
