24 May
2001
24 May
'01
12:56 a.m.
"DB" == David Brown <ddb@namshub.org> writes:
DB> 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.
DB> If you, say, launched two separate Zope processes, and one ZEO DB> process, on the same machine, aren't you going to be running 3 DB> different Python interpreters, each in it's own process? DB> Couldn't you then be utilizing up to three processors on an SMP DB> box? Yes. I may have misread the original question. I thought the SMP machine was running the ZEO server. If Zope and ZEO clients are both running on the same machine, I would assume they would run concurrently on separate processors. Jeremy