CPython thread starvation

[Paul Rubin]

John Nagle <nagle at animats.com> writes:
>    I may do that to prevent the stall.  But the real problem was all
> those DNS requests.  Parallizing them wouldn't help much when it took
> hours to grind through them all.

True dat.  But building a DNS cache into the application seems like a
kludge.  Unless the number of requests is insane, running a caching
nameserver on the local box seems cleaner.