I am running a python thread pool under Apache2 to handle incoming special HTTP requests.
The idea is that I have a single "handler" thread per request source - so if I have three devices (A,B,C) sending me these special requests, each would have its own "handler" thread on the server (1-A, 2-B, 3-C)
I have a thread pool class defined like this:
class threadController(threading.Thread)
threadPool = []
And when I get a new request, I look through all my running threads, to match a particular one, and pass the request to it.
This seemed to work well enough under Windows.
However, on Linux, it seems that sometimes my threadPool variable returns as empty, and I get an extra thread. So I have a single device (A) sending requests, but end up with two threads (1-A and 2-A).
Here's the strange thing: It is always one extra thread, never more. Regardless whether my device (A) sends 5 requests, or 30.
I am using mod_wsgi (3.3) for django integration.
Note: I realize that this is a somewhat unorthodox way of handling sessions. I am not looking for a way to handle sessions better - I already know there are better ways :)
