[Zope] RE: Zope and mod_python

Chris Withers chris at simplistix.co.uk
Wed Feb 9 04:43:49 EST 2005


Pascal Peregrina wrote:

> But I think that threading is mainly required for the Zope Servers (HTTP,
> FTP, WEBDAV), which is precisely the part of the functionality we move to
> Apache in the attempt I did (each child process runs a Zope instance that
> only has one thread, i.e. that only handles one request at a time and that
> only has 1 connection to ZEO).
> 
> Another place where threads were needed is ZODB, but again, in my attempt,
> ZODB is handled in an external ZEO instance.

I think you're right on this, and it's great that a major chunk of 
complexity can be handed off to Apache with this approach :-)

The storage server for ZEO is currently mainly single-threaded, iirc...

Chris

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