I have been using multiprocessing in production for a while and haven't
observed any issues.

Leaving multiprocessing.pool() with no arguments would mean it would take
the number of cpu cores available by default.


On Tue, 29 May 2018, 11:37 am Rohit Kottamasu, <rohit.topmas...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks for replying. Are there any issues with using multiprocessing? And
> do we need to give the argument for the number of threads in
> multiprocessing.pool() function?
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 11:32 AM, Yacko Abrams <yac...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Rohit,
>> Threads would be slightly slower than multiprocessing. You might have
>> issues with sharing variables or GIL. Hence usually multiprocessing is
>> preferred over threads in python.
>>
>> So to answer your question, you can use the second method
>> login_threadpool() shown in the code shared, which uses multiprocessing.
>>
>> (That being said the first method that uses threads could work just fine
>> for most purposes)
>>
>> Regards,
>> Yacko
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 29 May 2018, 11:23 am Rohit Kottamasu, <rohit.topmas...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey,
>>> I have written a login script in python for logging into a remote SSH.
>>> That is running successfully. I wrote the code in two ways using thread and
>>> threadpool. But, I'm unable to understand the exact difference of these two
>>> executions. I also want to know which function is more preferred.
>>> (login_thread or login_threadpool). What are the advantages and the
>>> drawbacks?
>>>
>>> Thanks
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