On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 11:52 AM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > paul.hermeneu...@gmail.com writes: > >> It appears that python-deamon would be exactly what I need. Alas, >> appears not to run on Windows. If I am wrong about that, please tell >> me. > > You're correct that ‘python-daemon’ uses Unix facilities to create a > well-behaved Unix daemon process. > > Since MS Windows lacks those facilities, ‘python-daemon’ can't use them.
As you might imagine, I am not always able to specify which OS is deployed. That does not mean that I am not responsible for getting the work done. Perhaps you will tell me that what I want is not a daemon. BTW, I thought that pip would know that python-daemon would not run on my machine, but it had no complaints installing it. That gave me unmerited hope. I want to create a program that will run a list of command lines. Some of the tasks might take 42 milliseconds, but others might take 4.2 hours. I need to be able to: - list the tasks currently being run - kill a task that is currently being run - list the tasks that are not yet run - delete a task not yet run from the list - add tasks to the list The goal is to load the machine up to a specified percentage of CPU/memory/io bandwidth. I want to keep the machine loaded up to 90% of capacity. It is important to monitor more than just CPU utilization because the machine may already be over-committed on memory while CPU utilization is low. Adding more processes in such an environment just makes the system go slower. I realize that high-end schedulers like IBM/Tivoli, CA7, and BMC might do things like that. Those are not usually within budget. Is a daemon what I need? Any other suggestions? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
