I've been reading the Zope 2.0 notes. It states that Zope 2.0 is multi-threaded only if used with ZServer. Will that always be the case or is that just a temporary limitation?

-----Original Message----- From: Jim Fulton [mailto:jim@digicool.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 1999 23:12 To: Jay, Dylan Cc: 'zope@zope.org' Subject: Re: [Zope] zope transactions

"Jay, Dylan" wrote:

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Would I be right in saying that when zope is executing an

external method

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all other requests are blocked? What about sql transactions?

Zope 1.x is single threaded. Zope 2.0, which will be releases in alpha later today is multi-threaded. Note that extension modules that have operations that take a long time (e.g. database interfaces) need to take certain measures (releasing Python's global interpreter lock) to avoid blocking other threads.

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My site seems to be experiencing some long lags in getting a page. Is there anyway to improve this?

Zope 2 should help alot.

Jim

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