[Zope] Re: (Solaris) Threading, dtml and performance?!

[Anthony Baxter]

I plan to get to this this week - I'm also hoping to look into rolling
the Solaris threading fixes into the 2.1.2-tobe CVS branch. 

Anthony

>>> Chris McDonough wrote
> It'd be pretty interesting if Anthony Baxter was able to run your tests. 
>   I know he's got a serious set of Solaris machines.  Alas, I'm not sure 
> what to do either...it would seem that we need a Solaris threading expert.
> 
> Oliver Erlewein wrote:
> > Well I've tested your script with an old backup of Zope 2.3.2 on an Win NT
> > SP 5 machiene. There are no problems. The script runs in one window and in 
the
> > other I can surf the management screen. My Solaris can't do that.
> > 
> > On Solaris and on NT I could see your second problem. When I press cancel o
n
> > the Browser the process/thread doesn't stop. Thats really a problem. I
> > started your script twice and the machiene (NT) is nearly not usable anymor
e. But
> > thats better than Solaris - there I can't start the process twice!
> > 
> > For me I've prooven that there is something VERY WEIRD with the Solaris
> > Zope. OK it might not be Zope but Python. As for me I need an answer / solu
tion
> > desperately! Any ideas anybody? My primary guess is, that Solaris doesn't
> > relese the threads after using them. I've tried a threaded Python script on
 my
> > Solaris machiene and that had no problems. But I must confess I have no clu
e on
> > how Zope Threading works. Therefore my test doesn't proove anything really.
> > 
> > By the way...it also shows how fast Zope really is because if I run
> > "singlethreaded" and Zope can still serve a few thousand requests a day tha
ts really
> > not bad.
> > 
> > Oliver Erlewein
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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