Use one process, and any CPU intensive in a thread pool? If the CPU intensive bit involves C code it will use multiple CPUs.
There really isn't anything cpu intensive. The application is a simple line based protocol with ssl that accepts multiple requests per session to keep the ssl connection startup overhead to a minimum. It does some string formatting, an https POST to another server, a couple of database queries, and it's done. I was throwing around 100 transactions per second at it and it wasn't even using 1% of the cpu. After thinking about this I've decided not to worry so much about the perception some people might have. When you say C code will use multiple cpu's, do you mean that if a module is written in C, it no longer uses the GIL? I seem to remember something along these lines but I haven't looked into all the details of when the GIL comes into play and when it doesn't. Chris