[kepler-dev] Threading in kepler

[Tristan King]

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