How to best perform Multiprocessing within requests with the python Tornado server?

Question

I am using the I/O non-blocking python server Tornado. I have a class of GET requests which may take a significant amount of time to complete (think in the ran

Answer 1

If your get requests are taking that long then tornado is the wrong framework.

I suggest you use nginx to route the fast gets to tornado and the slower ones to a different server.

PeterBe has an interesting article where he runs multiple Tornado servers and sets one of them to be 'the slow one' for handling the long running requests see: worrying-about-io-blocking I would try this method.