Gregory (Grisha) Trubetskoy wrote:
Another thing that should probably go in before 3.2. The RedHat people
patch mod_python with this patch in the source RPM (smart-ass comment
included):
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Stealing 1/4 of the available SysV semaphores is not polite behaviour.
--- mod_python-3.1.3/src/include/mod_python.h.maxlocks
+++ mod_python-3.1.3/src/include/mod_python.h
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@
#define NOTSILENT 1
/* hopefully this will go away */
-#define MAX_LOCKS 32
+#define MAX_LOCKS 4
/* python 2.3 no longer defines LONG_LONG, it defines PY_LONG_LONG */
#ifndef LONG_LONG
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I think we should take the 32 number to something like 8 and add a
comment that for a high-performance configuration you'd need to increase
this number.
Grisha
I've added --with-max-locks option to configure and set the default to
8. Shall I commit the changes?
Jim
