[Twisted-Python] Re: Twisted and the Posh Module

[Ed Suominen]

Ah, so *that* is why the SANE GUI frontend I'm writing [1] pauses 
scanning and window events when it's using PIL to generate a thumbnail 
of the last page scanned, despite my use of deferToThread. A unit test 
I wrote with time.sleep() passed just fine, and I threw my hands up and 
walked away. Thanks for shedding light on what was very confusing and 
frustrating behavior.

[1] spdf: "Scan to PDF," GPL. A Twisted-driven application with, 
shockingly, absolutely no networking. Coming soon to a download URL 
near you...

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Ed Suominen
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On Monday 14 March 2005 02:11 pm, 
twisted-python-request at twistedmatrix.com wrote:
> My goal is somewhat similar in that I have multiple CPU's that aren't
> being used very much, but the other problem is that certain libraries
> I use (PIL) grab the GIL for long-running operations like image
> modifications. I can thread them off, but it still liberally acquires
> the GIL and makes the server unresponsive for the duration of the
> operation.