Am 20.12.2010 01:44, schrieb Anand Chitipothu: > 2010/12/20 René 'Necoro' Neumann <li...@necoro.eu>: >> Hi guys, >> >> I recently noticed the 'gunicorn'-hype on this list. Could anybody >> explain to me, what the great advantage of gunicorn (as an extra >> HTTP-Server) is over running webpy in FastCGI-mode (via flup)? > > I noticed that flup is leaking memory so I switched to gunicorn and my > app has been working fairly well after that. > > One advantage of using gunicorn is that you don't have the GIL problem > because you are starting worker processes and each worker is single > threaded (assuing that you are using the default worker). > > Anand >
Looking at flup's source code, it also provides a pre-forking server variant :). Just for the case anyone might like it. But besides memory problems there is no real difference by design, isn't there? - René
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