[Twisted-Python] Scaling problem

[Uwe C. Schroeder]

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Hi guys,

is there a way to have one service start several processes ?
When using twisted everyone connecting to the server ends in the same process. 
This leads to "slowing down" when requesting information whenever a certain 
number of people go on. Each request takes some time to process and meanwhile 
the server is less responsive. I have one particularly expensive function 
that takes a bit. So if several people happen to use this function at a time 
the server slows down, up to where it takes a minute to complete.
It's not a problem of system ressources (it's a quad processor xeon server 
with plenty of RAM and ultra 320 scsi drives running only this application 
and the postgres backend). The machine has a load of 0.2 while slowing down.
Basically most of the machine is idle, since it only runs 2 processes and has 
4 processors.
Is there a way to have twisted do something like apache or postgres and split 
the incoming connection to several processes ? It's not a web application, 
I'm solely using pb.
BTW: You might suggest to break down the expensive function into smaller 
pieces - no way. It has to run in one database transaction otherwise I might 
end up with a inconsistent database - no good in finance business.

Thanks

	UC

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