I have a local service that uses HTTP.jl to handle simple API requests running on the main task and then a background task (started with Threads.@spawn) that periodically loads data from a SQL database, does heavy computations using DataFrames and several optimization packages, and updates the data …

How to protect a task from being blocked by other background tasks?

robsmith11 June 24, 2022, 8:34pm 4

Looks like there is a solution to this situation that was recently merged into the 1.9 branch:
https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1.9-dev/manual/multi-threading/#man-threadpools

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