Set niceness of each process in a multiprocessing.Pool Question: How can I set the niceness for each process in a multiprocessing.Pool? I understand that I can increment niceness with os.nice(), but how do call it in the child process after creating the pool? If I call it in the mapped function it will be called …
Controlling scheduling priority of python threads? Question: I’ve written a script that uses two thread pools of ten threads each to pull in data from an API. The thread pool implements this code on ActiveState. Each thread pool is monitoring a Redis database via PubSub for new entries. When a new entry is published, python …
Python: ulimit and nice for subprocess.call / subprocess.Popen? Question: I need to limit the amount of time and cpu taken by external command line apps I spawn from a python process using subprocess.call , mainly because sometimes the spawned process gets stuck and pins the cpu at 99%. nice and ulimit seem like reasonable ways …
