The only way you do not run web2py as a daemon is by running it as a CGI. All other method provide a long running process and since most of them are disassociated from a controlling terminal so you can call them "daemons". In the case of apache + wsgi the daemon is apache itself that loads a python interpreter in a modular fashion. A long running process has the advantage of not incurring on the penalty of starting the python interpreter and importing a lot of modules at each request. It can have other drawbacks such as memory consumption or corruption due to bugs.
mic 2012/6/12 Bruce Wade <bruce.w...@gmail.com>: > Hi, > > What are the advantages and disadvantages of running web2py as Linux daemon? > How would you scale this solution? Does this change how requests load models > on every request? Would this make running the application much faster > because web2py would always be running? > > > -- > -- > Regards, > Bruce Wade > http://ca.linkedin.com/in/brucelwade > http://www.wadecybertech.com > http://www.fittraineronline.com - Fitness Personal Trainers Online > http://www.warplydesigned.com >
