Jim Fulton wrote at 2006-10-6 15:13 -0400: >Dieter Maurer wrote: >> Jim Fulton wrote at 2006-10-6 12:21 -0400: >>> ... >>>> We would have a use case for this, too. >>> We've started moving toward just using a single application thread per >>> process >>> (with many processes). There isn't really much advantage in running >>> multiple >>> threads if you have multiple processes. >> >> Apart from sharing resources, such as the cache.... > >That isn't a benefit of multiple threads.
I disagree. > It is a way to >mitigate the cost of multiple threads. In the presence of the >GIL there is no throughput benefit in running multiple threads. I agree. >The only benefit of multiple threads is that it is somewhat >less likely that expensive requests will block inexpensive ones. Multiple threads can share resources such as main memory and a common cache (proposed by the original poster). While this does not give more throughput, it uses memory more efficiently. RAM got quite cheap but it is still a limiting factor -- at least for us: We abused Zope a bit and have build a desktop application with it. One of the main critiques of our customers is too high memory consumption. Many have computers with 256 MB memory and they do not like at all that our application uses roughly a third of it... They would even less like it when there were several processes with each of them taking about 60 MB (many of our caches are on module level and are shared indeed). -- Dieter _______________________________________________ For more information about ZODB, see the ZODB Wiki: http://www.zope.org/Wikis/ZODB/ ZODB-Dev mailing list - ZODB-Dev@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zodb-dev
