Anil, I don't know if this is the kind of thuing they did on reddit, but a few years ago I was working on a large network management system (in C++ FWIW). It was monitoring a network of around 100,000 nodes.To ensure a timely flow of alarm traffic the server had 4 network cards and the code used multi threading and low level comms code to access those 4 IP addresses.
But the Sun Sparcstation I was using at the time onlky had one network card and IP address, so the code couldn't run without mmajor invasive debug statements, almosty rendering the threading inactive. So in practice I had to run my code on the server each time I worked on the threaded code. I don;t know if thats the kind of issue he means but it might be an example of the kind of thing that a big web farm might experience. On another project I had similar issues where my workstation didn't have enough RAM to compile (actually link) the code (in C++ again), so although I could edit the code on my local machine I had to do the builds on the server (I only had 128M RAM, the server had 512M - and at the time 128M RAM cost over $400 - 8x16M modules!) HTH, Alan G. ----- Original Message ----- From: "anil maran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <tutor@python.org> Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 10:48 AM Subject: [Tutor] Low level socket and threading code in python in HUGEwebsites - > What kind of low-level socket and threading code is necessary for a > db > intensive site such as yahoo. How do we use it from python? does > anyone have experience using it > > > http://redditblog.blogspot.com/2005/12/on-lisp.html > >From moving to python by the founders of reddit > > > Because of the low-level socket and threading code we had to write, > reddit would not run on my Mac, and I was always tethered to our > FreeBSD development server. Not being able to program offline is a > pain. > > I would imagine that they aren't just using a database. > most of the "low level socket stuff" I've seen is about setting > timeouts and doing Async IO. > > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Get on board. You're invited to try the new Yahoo! Mail Beta. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
