We encountered the same problem with the memcache client. I submitted this patch to the memcache client maintainer, but I don't think it's been released yet:
65c65,73 < class Client: --- > try: > # Only exists in Python 2.4+ > from threading import local > except ImportError: > # TODO: add the pure-python local implementation > class local(object): > pass > > class Client(local): 107a116 > local.__init__(self) On Mar 10, 4:44 pm, Malcolm Tredinnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 13:24 -0800, Samuel wrote: > > I ran into a problem with Django's caching backend when using memcache > > and threads. Instances of memcache.Client are not thread-safe, and > > Django creates a single instance shared by all threads. I wanted to > > post this here rather than report a bug since it's not necessarily a > > bug in Django; however, memcache.py isn't really to blame either. > > > The issue came up while running through fastcgi. The keys and values > > where being swapped/mixed up which led to seemingly impossible errors. > > It wasn't really much of an issue since I just switched to a > > preforked. > > Good point. You're right, the code in Django is only going to have the > same thread-safety as memcache.Client (all our accesses to that object > are atomic). > > This has to be fixable without too much pain, so if you could file a > ticket, that would be great. That gives us somewhere to point people to > if they come across it before we can fix it (rule of thumb: once one > person spots this, everybody suddenly notices it). > > Thanks for pointing this out. > > Regards, > Malcolm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
