On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 14:24:38 +0100, Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > Robin Haswell wrote: > >> Hey there >> >> I'm doing some threading in python with Python 2.3 and 2.4 on Ubuntu and >> Debian machines, and I've noticed that if I open a lot of threads (say, >> 50), I get lots of python processes with individual PIDs, which consume a >> disproportionate amount of CPU. Does this mean that Python is using the >> dummy_thread module by accident? And is there a realistic limitation to >> the number of threads I can do? > > Both system-depend. The way threads are shwon depends on the systenm. And a > thread that runs, runs - so it consumes cpu-cycles. Try calling > time.sleep() to see how the consumption decreases.
Cheers for that info. The thread's main tasks are getting webpages (spidering), the actual amount of processing done in each thread is minimal - that's why I'm confused by the CPU usage. Cheers -Rob > > Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
