thanks alan it is very enlightening can one of you guys who have experience building sites such as yahoo mail and stuff, explain what parts of a webserver needs to be multithreaded thanks
--- Alan Gauld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
