On Feb 17, 7:23 am, Mariano Absatz <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> if I'm to install 0.11 on an apache server, which is the recommended
> method? mod_python or wsgi?

The mod_python package hasn't seen any active development in a few
years. It has various known issues and problems which are unlikely to
be fixed, the worst being memory leaks. It has undesirable behaviour
for large Python web applications when you can only use prefork MPM
with Apache. Even if using worker MPM with Apache you need to be
careful. On this latter issue, have a read of:

  http://blog.dscpl.com.au/2009/03/load-spikes-and-excessive-memory-usage.html

> Is there a performance advantage for one or another?

The mod_wsgi package has lower memory overhead and performs better.

  http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/PerformanceEstimates

In general the preferred method for hosting is now mod_wsgi.

Now some will say I am biased having written mod_wsgi, but I also
worked on mod_python for a while as well, so understand both very
well. :-)

Graham

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