childprocess-queue

Use childprocess module freely while limiting the amount of concurrent processes

Includes:

• Limit how many processes are running at the same time. Additional processes will be queued.
• Supports fork, spawn, exec, execFile with the usual signature, with exception of returning an id and not a ChildProcess.
• Add an onCreate callback to the options that you pass, to get a notification when the process was created. One argument will be passed back, containing the ChildProcess instance.
• Call newQueue to receive a separate queue that you can use like the main ChildProcessQueue object.
• Call setMaxProcesses to set the maximum concurrent processes.
• Call getMaxProcesses to get the maximum concurrent processes (defaults to 5).
• Call getCurrentProcessCount to get the number of currently running processes.
• Call getCurrentProcesses to get an array of the currently running processes.
• Call getCurrentQueueSize to get the number of processes waiting in the queue.
• Call removeFromQueue with an id to remove a pending process from the queue.

Installation:

npm install --save childprocess-queue

Contributing

If you have anything to contribute, or functionality that you lack - you are more than welcome to participate in this! If anyone wishes to contribute unit tests - that also would be great :-)

Me

• Hi! I am Daniel Cohen Gindi. Or in short- Daniel.
• [e-mail] is my email address.
• That's all you need to know.

Help

If you want to buy me a beer, you are very welcome to Thanks :-)

License

All the code here is under MIT license. Which means you could do virtually anything with the code. I will appreciate it very much if you keep an attribution where appropriate.

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2013 Daniel Cohen Gindi ([e-mail])

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