[Zope] Re: Unfair Linux Threads And Python Oh My

Chris McDonough chrism@digicool.com
Wed, 26 Apr 2000 00:08:12 -0400


Can a few folks with BSD/Solaris/HPUX/whateverotherthanLinux boxes try
the script that Tony found and see what it does on their machines?

Evan Simpson wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Tony Rossignol <tonyr@ep.newtimes.com>
> > I have added my observation to the ZWiki devoted to Zope in production
> > environments.
> >
> http://www.zope.org/Members/tseaver/Projects/HighlyAvailableZope/UnfairLinux
> ThreadsAndPythonOhMy
> 
> What I infer from this that a single spinning thread can totally stop Zope
> on some machines.  Couple this with the bug Jason Spisak reported today,
> which caused some DTML Methods to spin very tightly, and we may have the
> reason for some lockups.
> 
> It would be *really* nice if Python had a mechanism to put restrictions on
> threads' use of CPU resources.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Evan @ digicool & 4-am
> 
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