>> From other experiences, I suspect that a pre-forking server would
>> perform quite a bit better, but of course with some caveats.
>>
>> I guess I should check out apache+mod_wsgi.
>>
>
> Yeah, definitely.
>
>
>> Do you have any feel for how it would compare to the numbers above?
>>
> > Why do you need that / why doesn't threading work for you?
> I need to be able to limit resource usage during the serving
> of a page and
> 1) threads cannot be killed/terminated by parent
> 2) one cannot apply limits (e.g., memory, cpu) to individual threads
> 3) a signal cannot be set for an
> Is there a way (without hacking) that I can get a forking
> (instead of a threaded) server under moin 1.9?
Well, the usual way would be to use apache2 and mod_wsgi in daemon mode.
Werkzeug (we use that for moin's "standalone" server: wikiserver.py)
also seems to support forking, see:
http://we