Hmm, could you first explain why you're using apache and mod_python? From your description I can't tell if there is any good reason.

-Eric

I use mod python for performance reasons. Response time is critical. At the time I started this project I had no background in python but had used mod perl extensively, so I just plugged in mod python and started using it.

A framework that lets me create my own protocols and has a smaller footprint then apache is a huge plus, which is why I'm looking at alternatives. Plus there aren't many python servers that have stable ssl support, twisted being one of the only ones I've found.

From reading the docs it looks like using berkeleydb might be

problematic though, and since my applications all block I would need to learn how to handle that in twisted which doesn't look too difficult, but not exactly trivial either.

Chris