Thanks for the answers guys.
I basically just need to test that my concurrency mechanism is
working. How can I do that without being able to spawn two threads
simultaneously?

Regards,
Elliott

On Apr 20, 3:09 pm, Andy Freeman <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Unfortunately I cant seem to get app engine to run two threads
> > concurrently to simulate two users taking action at the same time.
>
> Are you concerned with the development server or the production
> server?
>
> The development server is single threaded and there doesn't seem to be
> any way to fix that.  (You can run multiple instances, but each
> instance will have its own datastore.)
>
> Application instances are, by design, single threaded.  The production
> server is supposed to fire up as many instances as needed - are you
> not seeing that behavior?  Note that the datastore actions of these
> separate instances will be interleaved.  Is that the problem that
> you're trying to address?
>
> On Apr 20, 4:11 am, eli <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi guys,
>
> > I have built a program that is (hopefully) concurrency safe. I would
> > like to test this thoroughly using a testing module that I have
> > written.
> > Unfortunately I cant seem to get app engine to run two threads
> > concurrently to simulate two users taking action at the same time.
>
> > Currently I am using .start() on a number of threads, each of which
> > should then go off and access certain datastructures to test their
> > safety. Unfortunately I can only seem to get app engine to serve each
> > threads requests, from start to finish, in the order they were
> > created.
>
> > Could somebody please give me some pointers. Thanks for the help in
> > advanced.
>
> > Regards,
> >ElliottR
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