Pass max_count to troupe decorator dynamically

I am struggling to be able to pass a max_count value to the troupe decorator dynamically. I am calling like this:

from thespian.troupe import troupe
from thespain.actors import *

count = 30
decorated_actor= troupe(max_count=count)(Actor)

But when I pass the decorated_actor to the actor system it behaves as if its not decorated. What am I doing wrong here?

[kquick]

The limit is mostly that imposed by your OS, not Thespian. There are various OS limits like the number of processes, number of open file descriptors, etc. that will probably be what you will encounter. I do not think 50 is likely to be an issue.

In addition, the troupe decorator will only create actors on-demand: if all existing actors are handling work and a new work message arrives, a new actor will be created (subject to the limit), but if there is an idle actor the work will be given to that actor instead. There is also an idle limit count for the troupe decorator, so if you do something like:

@troupe(max_count=50, idle_count=3)
class MyActor(Actor): ...

Then normally there will only be 4 MyActor instances running (the leader plus the 3 workers) but it will create up to 50 workers as needed.

[andatt]

Hi @kquick

Yes I am still using Thespian. That’s brilliant news! Thanks Kevin. Will be very handy to be able to do that. Will take a look at the latest update and give it a try.