[BangPypers] Alternate to XMLRPCServer

[Parth Buch]

On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Balachandran Sivakumar <benignbala at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Senthil <skksundar at yahoo.co.in> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I have an xmlRPC standalone server written wholly in python. Now am
> facing problems in scaling the services. The more we start adding features,
> the response gets slower. Is there any alternate server architectures i
> should start thinking of ? This server works on basis of threaded
> architecture and am seeing some complaints about threading in python.
> Should i be considering anything else ?
>

We had a very simillar problem in our project
https://github.com/FOSSEE/online_test
We circumvent the xmlRPC 2 concurrent sessions problem by making a server
pool. You can check the xmlRPC server pool code in this file
https://github.com/FOSSEE/online_test/blob/master/testapp/code_server.py

>
>       It depends on the implementation aspects. I am not very sure
> about threads, but for these scenarios, we should ideally be using
> reactor/proactor patterns. IIRC, all twisted[1] implementations are
> reactors. So, you can switch to twisted. Still proactors are even
> better. If you could implement one with Proactors, that should be even
> more efficient and scalable. Thanks
>
> [1] Twisted XML-RPC:
> http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/web/howto/xmlrpc.html
>
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> Balachandran Sivakumar
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