Speed testing Rackspace Cloudfiles (they're really slow)

Speed_testing_Rackspace_Cloudfiles

import os
import pyrax
import pyrax.exceptions as exc
import shutil
import datetime
import sys
from multiprocessing import Process
import uuid

def get_container():
  cdnUserName=""
	cdnApiKey=""
	containerName=""


	pyrax.settings.set('identity_type', 'rackspace')
	pyrax.settings.set('region', 'LON')
	pyrax.set_credentials(cdnUserName, cdnApiKey)

	cf = pyrax.cloudfiles

	cont = cf.get_container(containerName)
	return cont

def upload_files(cont):
	filename = "img.jpg"
	for x in range(0,50):
		new_fname = str(uuid.uuid4()) + '.jpg'
		shutil.copyfile(filename, new_fname)
		t1 = datetime.datetime.now()
   		cont.upload_file(new_fname, content_type="image/jpeg")
   		t2 = datetime.datetime.now()
   		os.remove(new_fname)
   		sys.stdout.write(str(t2-t1))
   		sys.stdout.write('\n')
   		sys.stdout.flush()

def do_requests():
	cont = get_container()
	upload_files(cont)

cont = get_container()
for x in range(0,10):
	p = Process(target=upload_files, args=(cont,))
	p.start()