Hey, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ question ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ How can I use a priority queue to schedule jobs within the "multiprocessing pool" module?
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ my scenario ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I want to run several jobs on a server. The jobs are being sent by users. However, all jobs have a different priority, and high-priority jobs should be processed before any low-priority job gets touched. Currently I just append all incoming jobs to the multiprocessing worker pool as follows: ### initialize worker pool pool = PriorityPool(processes=worker_count) process_handles = [] ### distribute function execution over several processes for job_parameter in job_parameter_list: handle = pool.apply_async(process_function, [job_parameter,]) process_handles.append(handle) This will only put the jobs in some kind of a list - and execute the jobs in the order they come in. Is it possible to use a priority queue for the process-pool? Kind Regards, Marco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list