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Re: threading : make stop the caller

From Laurent Claessens <moky.math@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: threading : make stop the caller
Date 2011-06-19 18:08 +0200
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Le 19/06/2011 18:03, Chris Angelico a écrit :
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 1:39 AM, Laurent Claessens<moky.math@gmail.com>  wrote:
>>  My problem is that when FileToCopyTask raises an error, the program does not
>>  stop.
>>  In fact when the error is Disk Full, I want to stop the whole program
>>  because I know that the next task will fail too.
>
> If you're starting a thread for every file you're copying, you're
> starting a huge number of threads that probably will just end up
> fighting over the disk. To get a reasonably efficient early-abort, I'd
> recommend having a fixed pool of worker threads (say, ten of them),
> and have each thread (a) check if the early-abort flag is set, and
> then (b) start copying the next file in queue. Once the queue's empty
> or the early-abort flag is set, all ten threads will terminate when
> they finish their current transfers.

Yes, my example was simplified, but I do that :)

Laurent

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threading : make stop the caller Laurent Claessens <moky.math@gmail.com> - 2011-06-19 16:42 +0200
  Re: threading : make stop the caller Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-06-20 01:19 +1000
    Re: threading : make stop the caller Laurent Claessens <moky.math@gmail.com> - 2011-06-19 17:39 +0200
      Re: threading : make stop the caller Laurent Claessens <moky.math@gmail.com> - 2011-06-19 17:54 +0200
      Re: threading : make stop the caller Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-06-20 02:03 +1000
        Re: threading : make stop the caller Laurent Claessens <moky.math@gmail.com> - 2011-06-19 18:08 +0200
      Re: threading : make stop the caller Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-06-19 12:38 -0400
        Re: threading : make stop the caller Laurent Claessens <moky.math@gmail.com> - 2011-06-19 18:52 +0200
          Re: threading : make stop the caller Lie Ryan <lie.1296@gmail.com> - 2011-06-20 03:04 +1000
      Re: threading : make stop the caller Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-06-19 12:58 -0400

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