task spooler is a Unix batch system where the
tasks spooled run one after the other. The amount
of jobs to run at once can be set at any time.
Each user in each system has his own job queue.
The tasks are run in the correct context (that of
enqueue) from any shell/process, and its
output/results can be easily watched. It is very
useful when you know that your commands depend on
a lot of RAM, a lot of disk use, give a lot of
output, or for whatever reason it's better not to
run them all at the same time, while you want to
keep your resources busy for maximum benfit. Its
interface allows using it easily in scripts.
