Re: [Tutor] Low level socket and threading code in python in HUGEwebsites -

2006-08-22 Thread wesley chun
On 8/18/06, anil maran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > thanks alan it is very enlightening > can one of you guys who have experience building sites > such as yahoo mail and stuff, explain what parts of a > webserver needs to be multithreaded > > > > Because of the low-level socket and threading code >

Re: [Tutor] Low level socket and threading code in python in HUGEwebsites -

2006-08-18 Thread Kent Johnson
anil maran wrote: > thanks alan it is very enlightening > can one of you guys who have experience building sites > such as yahoo mail and stuff, explain what parts of a > webserver needs to be multithreaded Generally you need a thread or process for each HTTP request, otherwise you will process r

Re: [Tutor] Low level socket and threading code in python in HUGEwebsites -

2006-08-18 Thread anil maran
thanks alan it is very enlightening can one of you guys who have experience building sites such as yahoo mail and stuff, explain what parts of a webserver needs to be multithreaded thanks --- Alan Gauld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anil, > > I don't know if this is the kind of thuing they did >

Re: [Tutor] Low level socket and threading code in python in HUGEwebsites -

2006-08-17 Thread Alan Gauld
Anil, I don't know if this is the kind of thuing they did on reddit, but a few years ago I was working on a large network management system (in C++ FWIW). It was monitoring a network of around 100,000 nodes.To ensure a timely flow of alarm traffic the server had 4 network cards and the code used m