[Twisted-Python] Running twistd and tac files as Windows service
Phil Mayers
p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk
Wed Oct 24 13:13:09 EDT 2012
On 24/10/12 17:14, Michael Schlenker wrote:
> this looks dubious, are you sure you can still react to ServiceManager
Yes.
> actions like 'Stop' or 'Query' this way, isn't this wait() blocking?
AIUI, the "svc" methods are called from various threads?
I didn't create this code; I cribbed it from somewhere, but this was a
long time ago (since I avoid Windows for anything other than playing games).
> If you spawn a lot of subprocess (around 100 at a time) you will
> additionally have fun with random crashes once you hit the DesktopHeap
> Memory limit.
This entire Twisted process exists to spawn processes that can only be
run under Windows. Fortunately, the app in particular is so crappy that
if I ever get *close* to 100 processes, I'm sure the app will die well
before pywin does ;o)
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