Threading won't help much if you're CPU bound, since Python can only run one Python thread at once. Process pooling probably would help, though will involve a more complex infrastructure. Which part of the docs made you think that process pooling is a bad idea?
Hi Itamar, on re-reading I see nothing particular about process pooling being a bad idea. I see the explanation of spawning processes from the reactor here: http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/core/howto/process.html This seems to be designed for spawning processes for compute purposes which no doubt has a lot of use cases. I'd like ot spawn processes to handle user communication however. THe only thing that I can think of is multiple processes each with their own reactor handling communication, and one or more other processes to handle compute. Thoughts? THanks for your help. G