From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2009-10-22T17:45:06+09:00
Subject: Re: memory leak

On 10/22/2009 05:33 AM, John W Higgins wrote:

> May I ask why you need threads and that level of complication? Are you
> really that sensitive towards speed that it really matters if you simply
> forked processes that died after 100 downloads and just started another
> worker? It would seem to be easier to use a nice simple independant message
> queue and just fire up workers that grab messages and download away.
> 
> I know it's not the sexy option but what exactly are you gaining by using
> threads here? Much easier to get a nice single threaded worker tuned up and
> tight then what you appear to be going through here. In fact - I might argue
> that you would be better with a downloader and separater parser processes
> that worked independantly via messages.

With DRb you can even work with those multiple processes like they were 
in a single process.

Cheers

	robert

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