RE: Multiprocessing takes higher execution time

2009-01-08 Thread Sibtey Mehdi
, Gopal -Original Message- From: Nick Craig-Wood [mailto:n...@craig-wood.com] Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 3:01 PM To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Multiprocessing takes higher execution time Sibtey Mehdi wrote: > I use multiprocessing to compare more then one set of fi

Re: Multiprocessing takes higher execution time

2009-01-08 Thread James Mills
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Nick Craig-Wood wrote: (...) > How many projects are you processing at once? And how many MB of zip > files is it? As reading zip files does lots of disk IO I would guess > it is disk limited rather than anything else, which explains why doing > many at once is a

Re: Multiprocessing takes higher execution time

2009-01-08 Thread Nick Craig-Wood
Sibtey Mehdi wrote: > I use multiprocessing to compare more then one set of files. > > For comparison each set of files (i.e. Old file1 Vs New file1) > I create a process, > > Process(target=compare, args=(oldFile, newFile)).start() > > It takes 61 seconds execution time. > > When I do the sam

RE: Multiprocessing takes higher execution time

2009-01-07 Thread Sibtey Mehdi
higher execution time On 2009-01-07, Steve Holden wrote: >> I use multiprocessing to compare more then one set of files. >> >> For comparison each set of files (i.e. Old file1 Vs New file1) >> I create a process, >> >> Process(target=compare, args=(oldFile,

Re: Multiprocessing takes higher execution time

2009-01-07 Thread Nick Craig-Wood
Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2009-01-07, Steve Holden wrote: > > >> I use multiprocessing to compare more then one set of files. > >> > >> For comparison each set of files (i.e. Old file1 Vs New file1) > >> I create a process, > >> > >> Process(target=compare, args=(oldFile, newFile)).start() >

Re: Multiprocessing takes higher execution time

2009-01-07 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-01-07, Steve Holden wrote: >> I use multiprocessing to compare more then one set of files. >> >> For comparison each set of files (i.e. Old file1 Vs New file1) >> I create a process, >> >> Process(target=compare, args=(oldFile, newFile)).start() >> >> It takes 61 seconds execution time

Re: Multiprocessing takes higher execution time

2009-01-07 Thread Steve Holden
Sibtey Mehdi wrote: > Hi, > > > > I use multiprocessing to compare more then one set of files. > > For comparison each set of files (i.e. Old file1 Vs New file1) I create > a process, > > Process(target=compare, args=(oldFile, newFile)).start() > > It takes 61 seconds execution time. > >

Multiprocessing takes higher execution time

2009-01-07 Thread Sibtey Mehdi
Hi, I use multiprocessing to compare more then one set of files. For comparison each set of files (i.e. Old file1 Vs New file1) I create a process, Process(target=compare, args=(oldFile, newFile)).start() It takes 61 seconds execution time. When I do the same comparison without implement