examples of realistic multiprocessing usage?

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> Instead of explaining my problem and asking for design suggestions, 
> I'll ask: is there a compendium of realistic Python multiprocessing 
> examples somewhere? 

Not that I've ever seen.

> Or an open source project to look at?

OpenGroupware Coils uses multiprocessing [in conjunction with AMQ].
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/coils/>