On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Marius Gedminas <mar...@pov.lt> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 02:23:50PM -0400, Jim Fulton wrote: >> On Apr 7, 2009, at 9:28 AM, P.J. Eby wrote: >>> At 11:54 PM 4/7/2009 +1200, Noah Gift wrote: >>>> 1. In the case of entry points for setuptools, it actually recurses >>>> into EVERY egg directory in your path, not just the egg you >>>> requested, adds them to your sys.path and additionally looks for >>>> four files inside of every egg. On a laptop on local storage, this >>>> doesn't matter, but when thousands of machines hit the same filer, >>>> with many python processes, bad things happen... >>> >>> Install your eggs with --multi-version, and then only the eggs that >>> are required for the running script will be added to sys.path or have >>> their contents opened. (Installing them as zip files rather than >>> directories may also speed this up.) >> >> My experience on Linux is that installing eggs as Zip files slows >> imports. > > Was that in the presence of NFS?
yes. > > Marius Gedminas > -- > We have an advanced scalable groupware communication environment (email) > -- Alan Cox > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFJ3FXakVdEXeem148RAtLXAJ9cn0H26iHmwCEsjA2c8hctwp6BBgCcCMhQ > gEaVFxdg6wsSWOx0doulsM0= > =qWLt > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - distutils-...@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > > -- Cheers, Noah _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
