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Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 11:19:56 +1100
Subject: Re: advice on sub-classing multiprocessing.Process and multiprocessing.BaseManager
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On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 7:24 AM, Matt Newville
<newville@cars.uchicago.edu> wrote:
> I'm maintaining a python interface to a C library for a distributed
> control system (EPICS, sort of a SCADA system) that does a large
> amount of relatively light-weight network I/O.   In order to keep many
> connections open and responsive, and to provide a simple interface,
> the python library keeps a global store of connection state.
>
> This works well for single processes and threads, but not so well for
> multiprocessing, where the global state causes trouble.

>From the sound of things, a single process is probably what you want
here. Is there something you can't handle with one process?

ChrisA