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Date: Tue,  3 Mar 2009 09:31:35 -0800
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From: ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] threads vs forks
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On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 8:28 AM, hugo rivera <uair00@gmail.com> wrote:

> It is a small cluster, of 6 machines. I think each job runs for a few
> minutes (~5), take some input files and generate a couple of files (I
> am not really sure about how many output files each proccess
> generates). The size of the output files is ~1Mb.

for that size cluster, and jobs running a few minutes, fork ought to be fine.

ron