> > 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? >
Large sites do load balancing (caching, dns round robin, reverse proxies, etc) over many hosts. Passing connection handles around on a single host is a different type of optimization. See this link for info on how Wikipedia handles their load-balancing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia#Software_and_hardware -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
