Re: Forking SocketServer daemon -- updating state

2007-02-20 Thread Nick Craig-Wood
Reid Priedhorsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am implementing a forking SocketServer daemon that maintains significant > internal state (a graph that takes ~30s to build by fetching from a SQL > database, and eventually further state that may take up to an hour to > build). > > I would like

Re: Forking SocketServer daemon -- updating state

2007-02-19 Thread Irmen de Jong
Reid Priedhorsky wrote: > Another possibility is that the signal handler simply sets a needs_update > flag, which I could check for in a handle_request() loop. The disadvantage > here is that the update wouldn't happen until after the next request is > handled, and I would like the state to be ava

Forking SocketServer daemon -- updating state

2007-02-19 Thread Reid Priedhorsky
Hi folks, I am implementing a forking SocketServer daemon that maintains significant internal state (a graph that takes ~30s to build by fetching from a SQL database, and eventually further state that may take up to an hour to build). I would like to be able to notify the daemon that it needs to