All processes must have unique names. Additionally, the names web and worker are insignificant and carry no special meaning. The only process that carries a significant name is the web process, as stated in the Heroku docs: The web process type is special as it’s the only process type that will receive HTTP traffic from … Read more
You can use callbacks from Pool.apply_async. Something like this should do the job for you. from multiprocessing import Pool def part_crack_helper(args): solution = do_job(args) if solution: return True else: return False class Worker(): def __init__(self, workers, initializer, initargs): self.pool = Pool(processes=workers, initializer=initializer, initargs=initargs) def callback(self, result): if result: print(“Solution found! Yay!”) self.pool.terminate() def do_job(self): for … Read more
Even though the Worker works on an other thread than the one of your main page, and can thus run continuously without blocking the UI, it still runs on a single thread. This means that until your sort algorithm has finished, the Worker will delay the execution of the message event handler; it is as … Read more