Parallelizing convert to utilize more than one CPU?

phalenor

Joined: 2006-07-06
Posts: 6
Posted: Thu, 2006-07-06 01:21

I was wondering if there were a way to run multiple instances of say convert to speed up resizing and thumbing of pictures. Has anyone ever tried this? I have a 4-way machine here. I think uploads would be much faster if we used pcntl_fork() for example to use up to some specified number of CPUs. Any ideas?

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