[kepler-dev] Threading in kepler

[Efrat Frank]

Ptolemy has an example of duplicating a subworkflow while the workflow 
is running. I can't find it now. I'll email it to you as soon as found.

Efrat

Tristan King wrote:

>hi guys,
>
>basically i'm looking for a bit of an explaination on how threading  
>works in kepler, and any ideas to what i might be able to do to solve  
>the below problem.
>
>I'm running into a problem where my kepler workflow isn't able to  
>keep up with the data being created from processing (thus my data  
>queue is getting full and dying).
>
>My workflow consists of a source which polls a data queue for new  
>data and when new data arrives, sends that data (an xml parcel) to  
>the rest of the workflow.
>
>Each data processing pipeline in the workflow is independent on the  
>progress of the other pipelines, thus new threads could be started to  
>preform the processing task.
>
>However, it seems to me that each Actor in the workflow only runs a  
>single thread for each actor. (i'm using the PN Director).
>
>Is there a way i can spawn a new thread to preform a particular  
>pipeline, while leaing my data source in a single thread producing data?
>
>Thanks for any help you can give me.
>--Tristan
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