[Twisted-Python] module interface checking tool

[Glyph Lefkowitz]

On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 10:48, Dave Peticolas wrote:

> I want to ensure that a connection pool can actually
> make use of all of its connections simultaneously if
> it needs to (the performance half of why a connection
> pool is used in the first place). If adbapi were to
> ignore the reactor thread counts altogether, for example,
> it would be pointless to specify a max connections greater
> than 10 since the reactor won't let you use more than that
> anyway, the default max thread count being 10 atm.

Aah.  So what you're saying is you want an API which multiple
thread-pools can communicate via to establish a suggested minimum value
for the maximum thread count?

I'm not opposed to such a thing, but shouldn't this be a deployment /
tuning option particular to a configuration?  The suggested value would
have to be a fairly subtle hint...

Maybe something like
'IReactorThreads.suggestAdditionalThreads(suggestingObject,
addtlThreadCount)'?  The reactor could track the suggesting object with
a weakref to decrease the total thread count when it goes away.

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