On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 6:52 AM, Tycon <adie...@gmail.com> wrote: > Last word on modwsgi and its "daemon" mode, which is similar to > reverse proxy and fcgi in that it separates the web server and app > server. As such, it has the same theoretical performance as reverse > proxy and fcgi (which in fact provide the same performance), but it > uses a proprietary communication protocol, and inlike proxy or fcgi, > it requires the app and web server processes to be on the same machine
Is *that* what you're talking about when you say "daemon mode" and "proprietary protocol". I thought you meant daemon mode as in running PasteHTTPServer or CherryPy as a daemon, and proprietary protocol as in WSGI or SCGI. The main point of mod_wsgi's daemon mode is to isolate bugs/memory leaks between the web application and the server, and to track the application's individual resource usage in the 'ps' listing. It's not designed for multi-machine scalability. As for its "proprietary" protocol, I consider that an internal matter of mod_wsgi. What matters is whether it works, and I haven't heard any complaints in that regard. Ultimately it comes down to the sysadmin's time of setting up mod_wsgi now and possibly switching to something else later, vs setting up something multi-machine scalable now (which is more work up front). And that depends on how likely a traffic onslaught is, how quickly the load will accelerate, and the sysadmin's future availability. -- Mike Orr <sluggos...@gmail.com> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to pylons-discuss@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to pylons-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---