scaling problems

[James A. Donald]

On Mon, 19 May 2008 21:04:28 -0400, "David Stanek"
<dstanek at dstanek.com> wrote:
> What is the difference if you have a process with 10 threads or 10
> separate processes running in parallel? Apache is a good example of a
> server that may be configured to use multiple processes to handle
> requests. And from what I hear is scales just fine.
> 
> I think you are looking at the problem wrong. The fundamentals are the
> same between threads and processes.

I am not planning to write a web server framework, but to use one.
Doubtless a python framework could be written to have satisfactory
scaling properties, but what are the scaling properties of the ones
that have been written?

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