RE: [Twisted-Python] RE: Question about Descriptors and SelectReactor

2009-04-07 Thread glyph
On 7 Apr, 06:17 pm, matu...@yahoo.com wrote: However I am using Linux. The Twisted documentation is recommending that it may be better to use pollreactor I would be actually quite curious to know the rationale of choosing select() over epoll() these days. epoll() scales like O(1) with the nu

[Twisted-Python] Can't quit a Tkinter application on MacOS X when using Twisted; fix? workaround?

2009-04-07 Thread Russell E. Owen
I am trying to convert a cross-platform Python/Tkinter application to use Twisted and have run into a problem: at least on MacOS X I can no longer quit the application. I have appended a minimal script showing the problem. This is probably not an issue on unix and WIndows because I find I have

RE: [Twisted-Python] RE: Question about Descriptors and SelectReactor

2009-04-07 Thread Alec Matusis
> However I am using Linux. The Twisted documentation is recommending > that it may be better to use pollreactor I would be actually quite curious to know the rationale of choosing select() over epoll() these days. epoll() scales like O(1) with the number of file descriptors, it is very performant

[Twisted-Python] RE: Question about Descriptors and SelectReactor

2009-04-07 Thread Andrew Francis
Hi Alec and Drew: Thanks for answering my question. From reading an excerpt of Steven's "UNIX Network Programming," it implies that the FD_SETSIZE is defined in the kernel. If you want a bigger FD_SETSIZE, you need to recompile the kernel. At least that is the case in BSD 4.4 UNIX. However I

[Twisted-Python] trac server error

2009-04-07 Thread Johann Borck
there seems to be some serious problem with http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ this is what the browser shows me on about one third of the requests: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/srv/trac/.local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/trac/web/api.py", line 382, in send_error 'text/html') File