Re: [Zope-dev] ZEO on SMP

At 08:26 PM 5/23/2001 -0400, Jeremy Hylton wrote:

Since a single Python process has a single global interpreter lock, you'll never fully utilize a 2-processor machine.

I may be merely demonstrating ignorance, but -- If you, say, launched two separate Zope processes, and one ZEO process, on the same machine, aren't you going to be running 3 different Python interpreters, each in it's own process? Couldn't you then be utilizing up to three processors on an SMP box? I agree that threads within a particular Python interpreter are not really going to gain anything because of the global interpreter lock, but isn't that a moot point with separate Python interpreter processes? Or does the TCP/IP stack cause problems? dave