Great answer, thank you! On Nov 5, 5:17 pm, Graham Dumpleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The latest roundup on thread safety of Django is that although it was > not designed for thread safety initially, the only known > multithreading problem has been fixed some time back. As such, > numerous people do run it in Apache worker MPM for UNIX and on winnt > MPM on Windows, both of which are multithreaded. The Django > instructions even show using multithreaded mode with FASTCGI, so that > it is present must mean people are having success with it also. > > The important thing though is whether your own application code built > on top of Django is itself thread. You would therefore need to ensure > you test you code properly. > > Using mod_wsgi is another option and perhaps simpler to configure and > manage than FASTCGI solutions, especially if the later requires a > separate supervisor system to startup your FASTCGI processes and keep > them running. Using mod_wsgi you also have the option of easily > changing your mind and moving an application back into the main Apache > child processes (like in mod_python) if performance is more important > for a specific application than memory consumption. > > Graham > > On Nov 6, 6:11 am, Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Also, should I take a look at mod_wsgi? > > > On Nov 5, 11:22 am, Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I am considering switching from mod_python and apache to lighttpd and > > > fastcgi because of the large number of virtual hosts I am serving. > > > > Because each virtual host gets its own sub interpreter, each apache > > > instance on my server can weigh in at over 160 megs. > > > > I have heard that apache-mpm, mod_python and Django will not work, so > > > I would like to know if using fastcgi with method=threaded would be a > > > good way to solve my memory usage problems. > > > > When I start one fastcgi process in threaded mode, it only uses 8 megs > > > of memory, which is a lot more scalable than apache instances weighing > > > in at 160 megs. > > > > Thoughts, please.
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