> Quite true and this lack of clarity was a mistake on my part. Requests > from users do not really become a significant part of this equation > because, as described above, once a user subscribes the onus is upon us > to generate messages throughout a given period determined by the number > of updates a user has subscribed to receive. >
So you are trying to SEND a million times several packets every 5 minutes? No way Python is the bottleneck in that volume. I have a POS app in Python that handles 10,000 packets per SECOND including a MySQL lookup. You have a bottleneck, but its not Python. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list