I'm not very well versed in all the intricacies, but if the "layer" calls os.fork() (if you're on linux, that's probably what the underlying server does) your import will happen only on the first request. All the subsequent should not import anything because they will "acquire" the current status of the process when they are forked. There are some options in most of the "layers" (being apache, uwsgi, and so on) to tell the interpreter to completely restart the process after a while, but if you have those issues you'll be better off never forcing a restart of the interpreter.
On Wednesday, January 16, 2013 5:47:18 PM UTC+1, Daniel Gonzalez wrote: > > That would work, and is what I am planning to do, but: how can I guarantee > that all processes (threads?) have been targetted?. > I guess this is not possible, unless I start at least N parallel requests, > N being the number of processes ... > > On Wednesday, January 16, 2013 5:37:24 PM UTC+1, Niphlod wrote: >> >> do an "outside" request as soon as you reload apache with curl ? >> >> Il giorno mercoledì 16 gennaio 2013 12:06:14 UTC+1, Daniel Gonzalez ha >> scritto: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> In my models I am importing third party libraries. Importing those >>> libraries takes time (3s) which means the first requests (one per process) >>> take long time to be served. >>> >>> Do you have any suggestion on how to trigger the importing before the >>> first requests arrive? I am running web2py via apache / mod_wsgi. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Daniel >>> >> --
