[Zope] Re: Zope threads and the GIL

[Tres Seaver]

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Manuel Vazquez Acosta wrote:
> Dieter Maurer wrote:
>> Manuel Vazquez Acosta wrote at 2008-5-4 11:12 -0400:
>>> ...
>>> That would mean that the only place where real multitasking occurs is
>>> when fetching objects from ZEO and other I/O bounded tasks, isn't?
>> I depends what you mean with "real multitasking".
>>
>> If you mean by this that several CPUs are concurrently active for your
>> Zope process, then you are near. 
> 
> Exactly. Several CPUs, I would like to use.

Generally, the rule-of-thumb for scaling Zope on a multi-CPU box is to
run an appserver instance per CPU, each talking to a shared storage
(ZEO, usually, but RelStorage would do as well).


Tres.
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