On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 02:23:50PM -0400, Jim Fulton wrote: > On Apr 7, 2009, at 9:28 AM, P.J. Eby wrote: >> At 11:54 PM 4/7/2009 +1200, Noah Gift wrote: >>> 1. In the case of entry points for setuptools, it actually recurses >>> into EVERY egg directory in your path, not just the egg you >>> requested, adds them to your sys.path and additionally looks for >>> four files inside of every egg. On a laptop on local storage, this >>> doesn't matter, but when thousands of machines hit the same filer, >>> with many python processes, bad things happen... >> >> Install your eggs with --multi-version, and then only the eggs that >> are required for the running script will be added to sys.path or have >> their contents opened. (Installing them as zip files rather than >> directories may also speed this up.) > > My experience on Linux is that installing eggs as Zip files slows > imports.
Was that in the presence of NFS?
Marius Gedminas
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