Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > Le Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:37:48 PDT, > Bill Janssen <jans...@parc.com> a écrit : > > > > The old GIL is causing me a great deal of grief. My server is heavily > > threaded, and when I get a number of Python 2.6 threads doing layout > > analysis, my 4 and 8 core machines turn into slow thrashers. > > Have you checked whether the 2.x patch improved your use case? > It would be nice to get real-world feedback of which situations the > new GIL helps (or doesn't help) improve.
Yes, good thought. I'll try it and see if I can get some numbers. I do have a mix of I/O and CPU bound threads, and we are seeing core usage by Python similar to that David originally discovered. Bill _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
