zodb & multiple processes

A.M. Kuchling amk at mira.erols.com
Wed Jan 10 23:40:51 EST 2001


On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 03:00:08 GMT, 
	Kapil Thangavelu <kthangavelu at earthlink.net> wrote:
>currently the zodb assumes a process lock on a particular zodb storage. if
>you want to run it with
>multiple processes you can use ZEO, which is a bit heavyweight if you want
>your app to run on
>one machine as it communicates over tcp/ip.

ZEO can also use a Unix-domain socket, which would provide both
performance and security benefits.  I suppose you could write a
special Storage class that expected multiple openers, but don't know
of any Storage that actually supports that at the moment. 

--amk



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