[mh] Is this the expected behaviour of process_item?

I use process_items to send messages and urls, occasionally (usually 
when I write bad code) I need to send a lot of emails in quick 
succession but MisterHouse kills any unfinished ones, rather than 
running them in parallel which is what I expected. To test this I built 
a minimum reproducible case below where it launches a process that 
simply sleeps for 5 seconds twice in succession. As you can see from the 
print log, he first one gets killed.

Is this normal?

Giles

<mytest.pl>

print_log( "Longproc run 1", "INFORMATIONAL", "p_longproc" );
start $p_longproc;
print_log( "Longproc run 2", "INFORMATIONAL", "p_longproc" );
start $p_longproc;
</mytest.pl>

<longproc.sh>

#!/bin/sh
# shell to sleep
echo longproc start 5 second sleep pid= $$
sleep 5
echo "longproc end"
exit 0
</longproc.sh>

<print.log>

18/02/2021 08:10:27 [p_longproc] INFO Longproc run 1
18/02/2021 08:10:27 [p_longproc] INFO Longproc run 2
Warning, a previous 'start' on this process has not finished yet
Killing unfinished process id 9380 
cmd=//home/pi/mh/GGBcode/procs/longproc.sh

...

18/02/2021 08:10:33 [p_longproc] longproc start 5 second sleep pid= 9381
18/02/2021 08:10:33 [p_longproc] longproc end

</print.log>

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