Thank you, Ricardo.

It's clear, now.

On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Ricardo Pedroso <rmdpedr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 3:16 AM, Vinicius Assef <vinicius...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Ricardo, very nice your solution.
>>
>> Below, I wrote some questions about it.
>>
>> >
>> > On Sunday, 6 July 2014 02:01:23 UTC-5, Ricardo Pedroso wrote:
>> >>
>> >> - search is powered by whoosh and bottle - Web2py is querying through a
>> >> simple restful api.
>>
>> I was thinking about this piece of your architecture.
>> If your request goes through Web2py, why delegate search to bottle?
>> (and, also, wait for another request)
>>
>> Why not just using Whoosh inside Web2py?
>
>
>
> Mainly for two reasons and because my vps has a small amount of memory
> available
> but has 8 cores.
>
> 1. I was worried about performance of whoosh.
> Whoosh is used in two different parts of the site, the search in the main
> page
> and the "maybe related" when viewing an article (eg:
> http://feeds.uni.me/feeds/default/article/281126?l=en&s=)
> and this are the two slowest (but still fast) things in the site.
> So this way I can put another core to work and I think I can release another
> greenlet when waiting for
> whoosh results and handle more concurrency since I'm using
> eventlet.monkey_patch() and from web2py
> I do this for the search:
>
> u = urllib2.urlopen('http://localhost:8080/search/' + str(int(p)) + '/' +
> arg + '?l=' + lang, timeout=15)
> json.loads(u.read())
>
> 2. memory consumption of whoosh. Currently I have this memory usage:
> web2py - 25MB
> search (bottle+whoosh) - 39MB
> the background job that grabs and process the feeds - usually 40MB (when
> running)
> nginx master - 5MB
> nginx worker - 5.5MB - The site is run only with one process/thread since
> I'm using
> greenlet's through eventlet.
>
> Sometimes(not too often) the background job give me a crash with MemoryError
> so
> the first thing I put down to free some memory is the bottle+whoosh process
> and the rest
> of the site still works, of course, without the "search" and "maybe related"
> features.
>
>
> Another, less important, reason was that I like to complicate, it's funnier
> :)
>
>
>> >>
>> >> - a small VPS with 256Mb of RAM.
>>
>> All these described processes run inside this vps?
>
>
>  yes.
>
> Ricardo
>
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