Google and Python

[Hendrik van Rooyen]

"Nick Craig-Wood" <....od.com> wrote:

> Hendrik van Rooyen <ma.....p.co.za> wrote:
> >  "Paul Rubin" <http://lid> wrote:
> >
> > > "Hendrik van Rooyen" <m..orp.co.za> writes:

> >  Ok got it - so instead of starting a thread, as is current practice, you
fork
> >  a process (possibly on another machine) and "hand over" the client.
>
> It is trivial to pass a socket to a new thread or a forked child - you
> don't need this mechanism for that.  It doesn't work on different
> machines though - it has to be on the same machine.

8< ------------- nice explanation by Nick-----------------------

How does a very large volume site work then? - there must be some
way of sharing the load without bottlenecking it through one machine?

- Hendrik