2009/2/12 Jannis Leidel <[email protected]>: > >> For someone who does not know pinax except that it somehow builds on >> Django, can someone give me a couple of line summary of what it does. >> More importantly as far as working out what may be a good >> configuration, how long do average requests it handles take. Is the >> nature of the application such that you can have long requests, be it >> file uploads or some sort of processing, or is every quick and sub >> second. The length of requests and the number of concurrent requests >> you get, especially the longer ones, is going to guide how many >> process/threads you need. > > Hi there, > > A Pinax developer here. I just wanted to hop in and say that the > upcoming Pinax release (and current development version) can be used > in the same way as any other Django based project. I actually doubt > there is only one good mod_wsgi template for Pinax, since it really > depends on what core feature a project of a user has. Although we > provide wsgi scripts (and documentation soon) for the example projects > included in Pinax we can't foresee what users build with Pinax.
One guiding rule at least might be, 'do not use Apache embedded mode, instead use mod_wsgi daemon mode'. This is my latest crusade if can find time to blog and write documentation about it. It isn't that embedded mode is broken, but that practically no one realises that they need to tune Apache MPM settings for embedded mode to work well for large persistent Python web applications. It is because this generally never gets done that mod_python has in large part wrongly got a bad reputation over the years. It wasn't mod_python that was at fault, but how Apache was setup. I have probably been a bit naive over the years in thinking people knew they had to make changes to the MPM settings for high performance sites and so haven't made a big deal of it. Getting to the point though that am getting stick of all the talk of mod_python being so bad when technically it shouldn't be. There is actually very little difference between mod_python and mod_wsgi embedded mode and if Apache not configured properly, you can have many of the same issues that mod_python has arise with mod_wsgi. Graham --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "modwsgi" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/modwsgi?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
