Twisted an several CPUs

Paul Rubin http
Thu May 19 20:01:11 EDT 2005


Jp Calderone <exarkun at divmod.com> writes:
>   Distributing load across multiple machines scales better than
> distributing it over multiple CPUs in a single machine.  If you have
> serious scalability requirements, SMP is a minor step in the wrong
> direction (unless you're talking about something like 128-way SMP on
> a supercomputer :)

See PoSH:

  http://poshmodule.sourceforge.net/

The performance gain from multiple CPU's and shared memory is quite real.
I've been wanting for quite a long time to hack up a web server that
uses this stuff.



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