We have a four processor Sun box (each processor scores about 2400 pystones, whereas a 500 MHz P3 gets about 5400 pystones).

Isn't Sun hardware impressive? ;-)

I have three zope installations running, one of which is hosting three subsites. If I create four *binary* installations of Zope (complete with the thread-safe MySQL adaptor and all the other python libraries necessary to run a Zope site), will I run into the global interpreter lock?

You will, but only within each installation. Each time you start a new Python interpreter you'll get a new lock :-) This of course that you also have them all in separate object databases as well.

What I'm saying is if I *don't* use /usr/local/bin/python for my Zope installations, but instead rely on ZOPE_HOME/bin/python, will I be able to spread my Zope sites out over the four processors, or is there a nasty sting in the tail in doing this?

It has nothing to do with which Python you use, but instead that there are multiple Python's in multiple process spaces. Chris -- | Christopher Petrilli Digital Creations | petrilli@digicool.com http://www.digicool.com

thanks in advance, tone. ------ Dr Tony McDonald, FMCC, Networked Learning Environments Project http://nle.ncl.ac.uk/ The Medical School, Newcastle University Tel: +44 191 222 5888 Fingerprint: 3450 876D FA41 B926 D3DD F8C3 F2D0 C3B9 8B38 18A2

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