https://mellowd.co.uk/tags/multithreading/ Recent content in Multithreading on mellowd.co.uk Hugo en-gb Fri, 12 Dec 2014 16:27:19 +0000 https://mellowd.co.uk/post/basic-python-multithreading/ Fri, 12 Dec 2014 16:27:19 +0000 https://mellowd.co.uk/post/basic-python-multithreading/ <p>The first ‘proper’ Python app I made logged onto a list of devices and pulled out OSPF state. This worked perfectly fine. The app correctly works out whether it can log into a device or not, and waits a few seconds to ensure a device actually responds.</p> <p>The issue is that if I have a list of say 1000 devices, and 500 of them don’t respond, the amount of time you need to wait rapidly increases as it looks at each one in turn. Would it not be better for the app to be able to log into multiple devices at the same time in parallel? This would drastically reduce the runtime.</p>