TwistedWeb on multicore/multiprocessor

Question

What techniques are people using to utilize multiple processors/cores when running a TwistedWeb server? Is there a recommended way of doing it?

My twisted.web based

Answer 1

If you wish to serve your web content over HTTPS as well, this is what you will need to do on top of @Jean-Paul's snippet.

from twisted.internet.ssl import PrivateCertificate
from twisted.protocols.tls import TLSMemoryBIOFactory

'''
Original snippet goes here
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'''

privateCert = PrivateCertificate.loadPEM(open('./server.cer').read() + open('./server.key').read())
tlsFactory = TLSMemoryBIOFactory(privateCert.options(), False, factory)
reactor.adoptStreamPort(fd, AF_INET, tlsFactory)

By using fd, you will serve either HTTP or HTTPS but not both. If you wish to have both, listenSSL on the parent process and include the ssl fd you get from the ssl port as the second argument when spawning the child process.

Complete snipper is here:

from os import environ
from sys import argv, executable
from socket import AF_INET

from twisted.internet import reactor
from twisted.web.server import Site
from twisted.web.static import File

from twisted.internet import reactor, ssl
from twisted.internet.ssl import PrivateCertificate
from twisted.protocols.tls import TLSMemoryBIOFactory

def main(fd=None, fd_ssl=None):
    root = File("/var/www")
    factory = Site(root)

    spawned = []
    if fd is None:
        # Create a new listening port and several other processes to help out.                                                                     
        port = reactor.listenTCP(8080, factory)
        port_ssl = reactor.listenSSL(8443, factory, ssl.DefaultOpenSSLContextFactory('./server.key', './server.cer'))
        for i in range(3):
            child = reactor.spawnProcess(
                None, executable, [executable, __file__, str(port.fileno()), str(port_ssl.fileno())],
                childFDs={0: 0, 1: 1, 2: 2, port.fileno(): port.fileno(), port_ssl.fileno(): port_ssl.fileno()},
                env=environ)
            spawned.append(child)
    else:
        # Another process created the port, just start listening on it.                                                                            
        port = reactor.adoptStreamPort(fd, AF_INET, factory)
        cer = open('./server.cer')
        key = open('./server.key')
        pem_data = cer.read() + key.read()
        cer.close()
        pem.close()
        privateCert = PrivateCertificate.loadPEM(pem_data )
        tlsFactory = TLSMemoryBIOFactory(privateCert.options(), False, factory)
        reactor.adoptStreamPort(fd_ssl, AF_INET, tlsFactory)

    reactor.run()

    for p in spawned:
        p.signalProcess('INT')


if __name__ == '__main__':
    if len(argv) == 1:
        main()
    else:
        main(int(argv[1:]))