Re: [Zope] [Urgent] Zope good for multiprocessor hardware

2000-11-23 Thread Curtis Maloney
On Thursday 23 November 2000 18:46, Daniel Dittmar wrote: > I don't think Python (and therefor Zope) will profit from a > multiprocessor as there is something known as the 'global lock' which > prevents more than one Python thread to run at a time. > > Things look different if you're accessing a d

Re: [Zope] [Urgent] Zope good for multiprocessor hardware

2000-11-23 Thread Chalu Kim
This confirms my understanding of Zope and Python. ZEO does not solve your problem explicitly because ZEO is more of distributed way of balancing the load. This is another ball of wax and ,in theory, it works great. But it has its own particular problems. Until someone conclusively shows, our bu

Re: [Zope] [Urgent] Zope good for multiprocessor hardware

2000-11-23 Thread Chalu Kim
Shane Hathaway wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Nov 2000 Andreas Tille wrote: > > > > > we intent to buy new web server hardware. We want to run Debian GNU/Linux > > > on a Sun system. I wonder if zope could profit from a multi-processor > > > architecture on such a system. > > If you mix in ZEO (now op

Re: [Zope] [Urgent] Zope good for multiprocessor hardware

2000-11-23 Thread Shane Hathaway
> On Thu, 16 Nov 2000 Andreas Tille wrote: > > > we intent to buy new web server hardware. We want to run Debian GNU/Linux > > on a Sun system. I wonder if zope could profit from a multi-processor > > architecture on such a system. If you mix in ZEO (now open source), yes it can. With ZEO you

Re: [Zope] [Urgent] Zope good for multiprocessor hardware

2000-11-22 Thread Daniel Dittmar
I don't think Python (and therefor Zope) will profit from a multiprocessor as there is something known as the 'global lock' which prevents more than one Python thread to run at a time. Things look different if you're accessing a database (other than ZODB) because a properly written database modu

[Zope] [Urgent] Zope good for multiprocessor hardware

2000-11-22 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000 Andreas Tille wrote: > we intent to buy new web server hardware. We want to run Debian GNU/Linux > on a Sun system. I wonder if zope could profit from a multi-processor > architecture on such a system. > Zope server starts several threads. So could they be split over the >