On 3/18/09, Chris Lusena <[email protected]> wrote: > > Can you access the main loop of the processing (CPU bound) thread? > If so you could try using time.sleep() to stop the cpu bound thread for a > moment and give others a shot at the interpreter. Also you could > (restructuring your project) put the processing in another process via > something like os.popen or subprocess (in 2.6/3.0), sockets or pipes for > communication, nice the process if necessary. Unix process are cheep, more > advice I have read on the subject boils down to multi-process where possible > or multi-threading With a quick glance at documentation I could not find a > way to set a priority of a thread under python ether. > > -- > Chris
Changing a thread priority is one of those things that's not in Python right now, and will not be for the foreseeable future. Doing a grep for "pthread_attr_setschedparam" in the Python source code reveals nothing (on 2.2.2 and 2.4.6, the source tarballs I have unpacked right now.) Due to the Global Interpreter Lock, I'm not sure it would even be a good idea to have prioritized threads, even though you could do it if you write a few lines of C code. -Mark C. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
