On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Tony McDonald wrote:
Hi, I hope someone can enlighten me here. I run a Zope system with 6 threads at the moment. Does this mean that if I get 7 requests to the site, the 7th one has to wait until one of the 6 are through servicing the request?
I helped built a heavily modified squishdot site that uses 4 threads to serve about 50000 requests a day. the server technology of ZServer (medusa) is different from apache (or at least it used to be). Medusa uses an asynchronous approach, and one thread can service thousands of requests per second. It is actually one (if not the most) efficient server approaches *as long* as each individual request does not consume too much processing power, otherwise all the rest of the requests will hang. For more info on the technology read the various documents from the medusa site at www.nightmare.com. Pavlos