Robin Haswell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > 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.
BTW, spidering is a great use case for async (even-driven) programming; use Twisted (or even build on top of asyncore) and you'll easily saturate your network bandwidth with modest CPU demands. Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list