iThreads troubles

Good morning,

 

I am having troubles with threads within my PERL service which was built
to monitor a queue for jobs to do.  The issue I am running into is, I
have an unknown number of jobs to do but can only do 6 at one time.  The
reason that I can only do 6 at one time is because I only have 6
resources available to me for each job.  

 

I looked into using threads to do the jobs asynchronously, as a file
comes into a queue; a loop monitors this queue and then creates a new
thread to carry out that job.  I have this piece of the code complete,
the problem is after the job is complete and a list of instructions is
complete, the thread doesn't clean up after itself.  My thread count
continues to increment as well as memory space.  The loop that I use to
monitor the queue is a while true loop and it sleeps for 2 minutes
waiting for more files to process and upload.  

 

I need help on how to clean up after a thread to release its resource.
I have researched this for 2 days now and Im growing weary.  It was
suggested to me to subscribe to this list to find out more information.


 

I greatly appreciate this in advance,

Dan J. Rychlik