GIL in the new glossary

Luis P Caamano lcaamano at mindspring.com
Sat Oct 4 11:49:05 EDT 2003


jjl at pobox.com (John J. Lee) wrote in message news:<87smmbyvm7.fsf at pobox.com>...
> дамјан г. <mk at net.mail.penguinista> writes:
> [...]
> > Seriously, the biggest problem with GIL is in applications like mod_python,
> > which is an Python extension to Apache. When Apache works in the
> > multithreaded MPM (I think it was called "Worker") the GIL starts to be a
> > serious bottleneck in your server performance. The GIL will lock your
> > Apache threads if they happen to hit on a mod_python handled location.
> 
> But doesn't Apache also have a multi-process mode?
> 
> If not, why not use a different web server if this becomes a problem?

Oh, so this is Apache's problem?  What kind of logic
is that? 

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