[Koha-bugs] [Bug 32558] Allow background_jobs_worker.pl to process multiple jobs simultaneously up to a limit

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=32558

--- Comment #40 from David Cook <dcook at prosentient.com.au> ---
(In reply to Marcel de Rooy from comment #35)
> Not sure (yet) but should the default not be zero? Just do not fork like we
> currently do?

The job needs to run in a forked process. The memory used by the job can be
reclaimed when the child process ends - whereas the memory will never be
reclaimed by the OS if the process doesn't fork. (The memory can be re-used if
it's internally freed within Perl but can't be reclaimed by the OS.)

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