Multi-Threading Practices

[Alvin A. Delagon]

Greetings,

I was the last time who asked your opinion about Infinite Loops and 
crontab. I settled with crontab where in the python program selects a 
number of records from a mysql database and then releases Threads (which 
is actually CORBA clients) that report to a CORBA server, wait a 
response and mark the record as "done" if everything's working fine.

The crontab is scheduled to run every 1 minute. My question is this: Is 
there any way I could manage the number of threads to release? How can I 
kill a certain Thread if its inactive for sometime? Also I encountered 
some bottleneck problems on mysql. What's the best way to avoid these 
problems? Thanks in advance and more power to python! :-)