# # Example where a pool of http servers share a single listening socket # # On Windows this module depends on the ability to pickle a socket # object so that the worker processes can inherit a copy of the server # object. (We import `multiprocessing.reduction` to enable this pickling.) # # Not sure if we should synchronize access to `socket.accept()` method by # using a process-shared lock -- does not seem to be necessary. # # Copyright (c) 2006-2008, R Oudkerk # All rights reserved. # import os import sys from multiprocessing import Process, current_process, freeze_support from BaseHTTPServer import HTTPServer from SimpleHTTPServer import SimpleHTTPRequestHandler if sys.platform == 'win32': import multiprocessing.reduction # make sockets pickable/inheritable def note(format, *args): sys.stderr.write('[%s]\t%s\n' % (current_process().name, format%args)) class RequestHandler(SimpleHTTPRequestHandler): # we override log_message() to show which process is handling the request def log_message(self, format, *args): note(format, *args) def serve_forever(server): note('starting server') try: server.serve_forever() except KeyboardInterrupt: pass def runpool(address, number_of_processes): # create a single server object -- children will each inherit a copy server = HTTPServer(address, RequestHandler) # create child processes to act as workers for i in range(number_of_processes-1): Process(target=serve_forever, args=(server,)).start() # main process also acts as a worker serve_forever(server) def test(): DIR = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), '..') ADDRESS = ('localhost', 8000) NUMBER_OF_PROCESSES = 4 print 'Serving at http://%s:%d using %d worker processes' % \ (ADDRESS[0], ADDRESS[1], NUMBER_OF_PROCESSES) print 'To exit press Ctrl-' + ['C', 'Break'][sys.platform=='win32'] os.chdir(DIR) runpool(ADDRESS, NUMBER_OF_PROCESSES) if __name__ == '__main__': freeze_support() test()