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http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=42534

           Summary: <parallel> task does not start new
processes as expected
           Product: Ant
           Version: 1.7Alpha (nightly)
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Windows Server 2003
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Core
        AssignedTo: devant.apache.org
        ReportedBy: tv_spamboxgmx.de


When using ant to run windows applications in parallel,
termination of one
application will not always result in a new process. 

The problem can be verified on XP and Server 2003 with
simple GUI hello world
programs that pop up a window and have to be closed
manually. I experienced it
with Ant 1.65 and the current ant 1.7.0 nightly build (may
28th 2007), on both a
P4 machine (with 2 virtual processors) and on a Xeon server
with 4 processors.

In the following script on a 2-processor machine, sometimes
(25%-50% of the
time) I have to close both HelloWorld1 and HelloWorld2
before HelloWorld3 is
startet. The problem does not depend on which program is
closed, it occurs
sometimes if I close HelloWorld1 and sometimes if I close
HelloWorld2. 

<parallel threadsPerProcessor="1">
            <exec
executable="HelloWorld1.exe"/>
            <exec
executable="HelloWorld2.exe"/>
            <exec
executable="HelloWorld3.exe"/>
            <exec
executable="HelloWorld4.exe"/>
</parallel>


The same problem occurs if I enter a fixed threadCount. If I
run the next code
snippet, it is rare that a new application is startet if I
terminate a randomly
picked process of the 4 started process, often I have to
close all 4
applications before the next 4 are started.

<parallel threadCount="4">
        <exec
executable="HelloWorld1.exe"/>
        <exec
executable="HelloWorld2.exe"/>
        <exec
executable="HelloWorld3.exe"/>
        <exec
executable="HelloWorld4.exe"/>
        <exec
executable="HelloWorld5.exe"/>
        <exec
executable="HelloWorld6.exe"/>
        <exec
executable="HelloWorld7.exe"/>
        <exec
executable="HelloWorld8.exe"/>
</parallel>

In fact, monitoring our Nightly Build which compiles a large
number of C++
programs in parallel on a 4-processor machine showed that
with
threadsPerProcessor="1", sometimes only one
process is running. This severely
prolongs out build time, because the compile time of a few
projects is very long
and if ant waits for such a project then only one processor
is used instead of
all 4.

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