How to run multiple instances of Writer simultaneously?

[Matthew J. Francis]

On 19/10/2017 17:09, Jens Tröger wrote:
> Thanks Matthew!
> 
> That’s close to what I’m using. However, would you mind sharing your “close document” code, as well as shutting down the soffice process?
> 
> In that context, it looks like you’re using the soffice process as the server? How about projects like listed in this question: https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=75523  What about scalability as per this question: https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=74002
> 
> Thank you,
> Jens

Well, in the context of the previously included code, cleanup was a 
matter of:

   os.killpg(os.getpgid(proc.pid), signal.SIGKILL)
   shutil.rmtree (tempDir)

which is I think not what you want - it was purely used to run a test, 
then terminated with prejudice when the result was known.

Something like you mentioned earlier should be sufficient to make the 
instance (one soffice.bin and wrapper script) go away cleanly in the 
normal case:

   document.close(True)
   desktop.terminate()


Whether running a persistent server process instead would suit your 
needs better is something you'll have to test with your actual use case. 
Without knowing exactly what it is you're trying to achieve, I can only 
speculate in general terms:
On the one hand, running everything through a persistent LO instance as 
server will give you reasonably low latency if it's something time 
sensitive, but it may struggle to make use of the ample threads of 
modern processors if there are many parallel requests to service; on the 
other hand, running everything on individual, isolated instances means 
you will incur a relatively high fixed cost for each startup (even with 
cached user profiles, it will still take some time to load a whole new 
LO), but may ultimately scale to use CPU resources better if each 
individual transaction is fairly long running and CPU intensive.

Regards
Matthew Francis