Re: Twisted an several CPUs

2005-05-20 Thread Michael Sparks
Paul Rubin wrote: Jp Calderone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Distributing load across multiple machines scales better than distributing it over multiple CPUs in a single machine. If you have serious scalability requirements, SMP is a minor step in the wrong direction (unless you're talking

Twisted an several CPUs

2005-05-19 Thread Thomas Guettler
Hi, Out of sheer curiosity: Does Twisted scale if the server has several CPUs? As far as I know twisted uses one interpreter. This means a prefork server modul might be better to server database driven web-apps. Has anyone experience high load and twisted? Thomas -- Thomas Güttler,

Re: Twisted an several CPUs

2005-05-19 Thread Jp Calderone
On Thu, 19 May 2005 17:22:31 +0200, Thomas Guettler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Out of sheer curiosity: Does Twisted scale if the server has several CPUs? No more than any other single-process Python application (no less, either). Unless you run multiple processes... As far as I know

Re: Twisted an several CPUs

2005-05-19 Thread Mike Meyer
Jp Calderone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Has anyone experience high load and twisted? Distributing load across multiple machines scales better than distributing it over multiple CPUs in a single machine. If you have serious scalability requirements, SMP is a minor step in the wrong

Re: Twisted an several CPUs

2005-05-19 Thread Paul Rubin
Jp Calderone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Distributing load across multiple machines scales better than distributing it over multiple CPUs in a single machine. If you have serious scalability requirements, SMP is a minor step in the wrong direction (unless you're talking about something like

Re: Twisted an several CPUs

2005-05-19 Thread Jp Calderone
On 19 May 2005 17:01:11 -0700, Paul Rubin http://phr.cx@nospam.invalid wrote: Jp Calderone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Distributing load across multiple machines scales better than distributing it over multiple CPUs in a single machine. If you have serious scalability requirements, SMP is a