[Twisted-Python] CPU intensive threads
Itamar Shtull-Trauring
itamar at itamarst.org
Wed Jul 27 08:40:18 MDT 2005
On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 17:44 -0600, Nathaniel Haggard wrote:
> When I run a CPU intensive method via threads.deferToThread it takes
> all the CPU away and renders the twisted process unresponsive. The
> perspective broker for example will not make any connections until the
> CPU intensive methods finish.
If it's a C extension you'll want to release the global interpreter lock
when possible, otherwise other threads will *never* run, regardless of
how much CPU you code uses.
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