help! multi-threading problem on hyperthreading smp linux server

Josiah Carlson jcarlson at nospam.uci.edu
Tue Feb 10 18:03:42 EST 2004


> GIL = Global interpreter lock. It shold cause trouble on SMP. As someone 
> recently mentioned, Jython does not have it, so you have options.

Are you sure it is the GIL?  I run quite a few threaded applications on 
my SMP machine, and have had no isses with the GIL killing it...well, 
except for that one wxPython thing.  Maybe the GIL is the cause.

  - Josiah



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