On 09/03/2010 13:19, pyt...@bdurham.com wrote:
I'm looking for simple ways to monitor and limit the number of instances of our Python application that gets run on our in-house Terminal Servers (2003 and 2008).
It's not quite clear whether you want something which you can build into the application itself (in which case, the answer's probably Semaphores: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms685129%28VS.85%29.aspx or whether you want something external to the applications which will watch what's starting up and... shut them down, or log an alert, or something. In which you can probably use WMI events or a simple polling loop with something like psutil: http://code.google.com/p/psutil/ I'm not quite sure if you need to distinguish the app when running in a Terminal Server environment or not... Obviously there are other approaches: you could write transient pid files in the Unix fashion, you could use Job objects to group your processes together in one job: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms684161%28VS.85%29.aspx and limit the number of processes. (I haven't tried this, but in principle it ought to work). TJG _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
