On Apr 15, 2:21 pm, MRAB <goo...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > joshbaptiste wrote: > > I have a corewatch.py program on ~400+ Linux machines that collect > > core file gdb output and sends the output traces via email to > > developers. I what to convert the script for all output to be sent to > > a centralized server also written in python and displayed via > > webpage. My first thought was a simple HTTP POST to server from all > > nodes but since the gdb output can be very large, multiplied my the # > > of servers, worries me as network traffic of 400+ nodes sending to 1 > > server may cause saturation. > > > What would be the most efficient/small serialization format to use to > > send this trace data from nodes to server over network.. would > > Pickling be ok? > > I'd probably compress the data first using the zipfile module.
ok.. zipfile, sounds good thanks.. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list