ppool is a lightweight worker pool for Erlang, originally published as didactic code in Learn You Some Erlang by Frédéric Trottier-Hébert.
Copyright (c) 2009 Frédéric Trottier-Hébert; available under the terms of the MIT Licence.
1> ppool:start_pool(nagger, 2, {ppool_nagger, start_link, []}).
{ok,<0.35.0>}
2> ppool:run(nagger, ["finish the chapter!", 10000, 10, self()]).
{ok,<0.39.0>}