That probably isn't too far off. One time it did work and it was weird so I might have actually got one of the threads to fire correctly. Is there a way to limit the amount of threads mod_python uses?
Seth On Mar 1, 9:48 pm, Malcolm Tredinnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Seth, > > > > On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 03:35 +0000, Seth Buntin wrote: > > I have this: > > > request.session["order_items"] = [] > > > and on certain views I have: > > > request.session["order_items"].append(order_item.id) > > > In development mode this works fine. Even when I use Firebug I see > > everything being sent to the specific views and other areas of the > > site are being updated correctly (they don't rely on the session > > variable) and are receiving the variables I send via AJAX. It is > > acting like the session variable is just being passed over. Kinda > > like the session isn't being saved but I have > > SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST = True in my settings file.' > > Thanks for the extra information. Makes things a little clearer. > > Slight stab in the dark here, but whilst I think about it some more, > this may provide some clues for you to think about: one difference > between the development environment and mod_python is threadedness. In > the dev environment, everything is being run in a single thread, one > step at a time. In the mod_python setup, different threads could be > handling different portions of your processing each time. > > I'm wondering if this may lead to race conditions along the lines of: > > thread A creates a session > > thread B creates a session > > thread A stores "foo = 6" in session > > thread B stores "blah = 1" in its session > > thread A stores session (which contains foo=6) > > thread B stores session (which does NOT have foo=6) > > might be happening if you are doing lots of partial updates. > > Like I said, this is just a gut feeling of something to look at based on > one known difference between the two environments. Working out whether > I'm on crack or not may require rummaging through to code to work out > exactly who is saving what when. In the meantime, I'll let it bounce > around in my head a bit and see if anything else pops into mind. > > Regards, > Malcolm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@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-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
