2009/4/18 Aaron Watters <aaron.watt...@gmail.com>: > > > > On Apr 17, 7:41 am, Graham Dumpleton <graham.dumple...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> 2009/4/17 Andy <selforgani...@gmail.com>: >> >> That said, the GIL is not as big a deal as some people make out... > > Yes, I'd suspect that in almost all real cases > the bottleneck will be disk I/O and database > access (which are also unaffected by the GIL). > These things are awfully tricky to philosophize > about from first principles -- you need to find > a slow application and run "top" etc to find out > what the real problem is. I'd even go so far as > to guess that the hypothesis about mod-python > may have been based on guesswork.
Which hypothesis about mod_python? The one I blogged about in: http://blog.dscpl.com.au/2009/03/load-spikes-and-excessive-memory-usage.html If that is what you mean then yes, I haven't experienced it first hand, but logically knowing how Apache works and applying common sense about characteristics of fat Python applications, it is a good as hypothesis as any at the moment. :-) Graham > -- Aaron Watters > http://aaron.oirt.rutgers.edu/myapp/docs/W1500.whyIsWhiffCool > > === > She was dirty, flirty, musta been about thirty > -- Stones, 60's > She was shifty, nifty, musta been about fifty > -- Stones, 80's > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "modwsgi" group. To post to this group, send email to modwsgi@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to modwsgi+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/modwsgi?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
