library(crew) x <- crew_controller_local( name = "test", workers = 2L ) x$start() n <- 200 time <- system.time({ for (index in seq_len(n)) { name <- paste0("task_", index) x$push(name = name, command = ps::ps_pid()) } }) message(time["elapsed"]) results <- list() time <- system.time({ while (length(results) < n) { out <- x$pop() if (!is.null(out)) { results[[length(results) + 1L]] <- out } } }) message(time["elapsed"]) x$terminate() results <- tibble::as_tibble(do.call(rbind, results)) results$result <- as.integer(results$result) table(results$result) # 200 total tasks should be about evenly distributed. testthat::expect_equal(sum(table(results$result)), 200)