thanks for the answer. I will follow your advice!
On Mar 22, 6:59 pm, Ross Peoples <ross.peop...@gmail.com> wrote: > To answer simply, yes the embedded Rocket server will handle > multiple simultaneous requests. However, if you have long-running processes, > they may force Rocket to wait until they are finished before responding to > additional requests. This is easy to overcome by using Python's multiprocess > module. For example, I have a script to batch insert a bunch of records into > the database. The script takes about a minute to run and is started by an > ajax call. So in web2py, I created a scripts.py module and imports > multiprocessing, then subclasses the Process class. > > When the ajax call comes in, web2py instantiates my script module, then > calls run() to start a new process that does all the work. The moment that > run() is called, execution continues so that other incoming requests can be > handled and the script runs in the background. Just for fun, I also made my > script report progress so that another ajax call could get the status of it.
