multicpu bzip2 using os.system or queue using python script

[harijay]

Thanks a tonne..That code works perfectly and also shows me how to
think of using queue and threads in my python programs

Hari

On Jul 27, 1:26 pm, MRAB <pyt... at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> harijay wrote:
> > I want to quickly bzip2 compress several hundred gigabytes of data
> > using my 8 core , 16 GB ram workstation.
> > Currently I am using a simple python script to compress a whole
> > directory tree using bzip2 and a system call coupled to an os.walk
> > call.
>
> > I see that the bzip2 only uses a single cpu while the other cpus
> > remain relatively idle.
>
> > I am a newbie in queue and threaded processes . But I am wondering how
> > I can implement this such that I can have four bzip2 running threads
> > (actually I guess os.system threads ), each using probably their own
> > cpu , that deplete files from a queue as they bzip them.
>
> > Thanks for your suggestions in advance
>
> [snip]
> Try this:
>
> import os
> import sys
> from threading import Thread, Lock
> from Queue import Queue
>
> def report(message):
>      mutex.acquire()
>      print message
>      sys.stdout.flush()
>      mutex.release()
>
> class Compressor(Thread):
>      def __init__(self, in_queue, out_queue):
>          Thread.__init__(self)
>          self.in_queue = in_queue
>          self.out_queue = out_queue
>      def run(self):
>          while True:
>              path = self.in_queue.get()
>              sys.stdout.flush()
>              if path is None:
>                  break
>              report("Compressing %s" % path)
>              os.system("bzip2 %s" % path)
>              report("Done %s" %  path)
>              self.out_queue.put(path)
>
> in_queue = Queue()
> out_queue = Queue()
> mutex = Lock()
>
> THREAD_COUNT = 4
>
> worker_list = []
> for i in range(THREAD_COUNT):
>      worker = Compressor(in_queue, out_queue)
>      worker.start()
>      worker_list.append(worker)
>
> for roots, dirlist, filelist in os.walk(os.curdir):
>      for file in [os.path.join(roots, filegot) for filegot in filelist]:
>          if "bz2" not in file:
>              in_queue.put(file)
>
> for i in range(THREAD_COUNT):
>      in_queue.put(None)
>
> for worker in worker_list:
>      worker.join()