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Mike Orr wrote:
>    - Three Quixote processes on the server would take 645 MB, a good
> chunk of the 1 GB total, though one or two would be swapped out
> sometimes.

If your data is "read only" and you are using a pickle, I guess you
should be able to share the entire data between threads, without any
special code.

Another option would use a single-thread server with the quixote
instances acting as "clients" (sending search terms to the server). This
makes sense because a) eats less RAM and b) since your search is CPU
bound, processing "x" queries at once will be (slightly) slower that
processing the queries serially.

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