On 20 September 2010 17:43, Peter Edwards <pe...@dragonstaff.co.uk> wrote: > On 20 September 2010 17:30, Roger Burton West <ro...@firedrake.org> wrote: > >> I wish to have two processes, a "producer" (which will create files) and >> a "consumer"
When hearing those two words you should automatically think... > Use a queue? ... instead of writing yet more software. A couple are: > ApacheMQ | RabbitMQ | Beanstalkd And probably also Redis. I've used all of them and would probably recommend Redis for something lightweight and RabbitMQ for something heavyweight with clustering. HTH, Leon.