[Zope] Scaling problems, or something else?

[Dieter Maurer]

Paul Winkler wrote at 2007-5-16 12:04 -0400:
> ...
>- multiple ZEO clients does allow you better responsiveness with high
>concurrency, but you can also try increasing the number of threads to
>get the same effect without the added network overhead.

If you have several CPUs (and a CPU bound activity)
then an increased number of threads is inferior
to multiple processes as the GIL prevents more than a single thread
running Python code.



-- 
Dieter