On Sep 4, 1:51 pm, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Martin DeMello wrote: > > I'm writing a cluster monitor, that collects information from a set of > > machines and logs it to a database > > > In the interests of not hammering the db unnecessarily, I'm > > considering the following > > 1. A series of independent "monitor" threads that collect information > > over TCP from the cluster of machines, and write it to a queue > > 2. A "logger" thread that empties the queue every second or so and > > inserts the collected information to the db via a single insert > > statement > > why are you using a queue for this case, btw? why not just use a plain list > > L = [] > lock = threading.Lock()
Good point - I thought of queue because it was self-locking, but you're right, I can as well use a simple list and lock it myself. martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
