"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 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
