On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 11:26:46 -0500, Eric S. Johansson wrote: > So the solutions that come to mind are some form of dictionary in shared > memory with locking semaphore scoreboard or a multithreaded process > containing a single database (Python native dictionary, metakit, gdbm??) > and have all of my processes speak to it using xmlrpc which leaves me > with the question of how to make a multithreaded server using stock > xmlrpc.
Another solution might be to store the records as files in a directory, and use file locking to control access to the files (careful over NFS!). You might also consider berkeley db, which is a simple database to add to an application, (and which I believe supports locks), but I must admit I'm not a fan of the library. I assume that the bottleneck is processing the records, otherwise this all seems a bit academic. Jeremy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
