Malcolm Greene wrote: > I'm looking for tips on how to load balance running multiple Python > applications in multi-CPU environments. My understanding is that Python > applications and their threads are limited to a specific CPU. > > Background: I have a Python utility that processes email messages. I > suspect there's a lot of idle time while this utility waits on a remote > email server.
While it's true that python's threads are limited to using a single CPU at a time, it sounds like your bottleneck is network IO, not CPU power. I imagine that your one CPU is doing a lot of idling, thumb-twiddling, etc., while waiting for the remote email server to respond. In such a scenario, python's threads will work fine to speed your application. On the other hand, adding CPUs to an IO-bound application isn't likely to speed it up at all. Jeffrey -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
