Twisted/Woven threading?

[Ivan Voras]

Bob Ippolito wrote:
> On 2004-02-29 20:07:04 -0500, Ivan Voras <ivoras at __geri.cc.fer.hr> said:
> 
>> I've experimented with a simple web application made with woven and 
>> stated by twistd from a .tap file, on a Win32. It seems that the web 
>> server started that way is not multitasked/multithreaded and that one 
>> request that requires long processing (e.g. a factory that produces a 
>> long result fetched from a database) makes the server totaly 
>> unresponsive.
>>
>> Is that normal? What can I do to make it multithreaded?
> 
> 
> You're probably using DBAPI stuff directly, you can't do that, it's 
> blocking.  You need to do that work in a separate thread, the easiest 
> way is probably with twisted.enterprise.  There are tutorials and such 
> about this, and a better place to ask is the Twisted mailing list(s).

Actually, I don't think the problem is in the db itself, but in the 
formatting (the "factory" that transformed database result into xhtml). 
The query itself is fast and trivial.