From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2003-03-08T00:09:38+09:00
Subject: Re: DRB and threads

On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 01:12:03PM +0000, Brian Candler wrote:
> I'd actually like to run as multiple processes, for two specific reasons:
> 
> (1) being able to avoid any blocking issues with DBI drivers. There will
>     be some long-duration queries which take place; I don't want all
>     other clients to block while this happens!
> (2) making use of multiple CPUs
> 
> I quite like the Apache/FastCGI approach because the code for allocating
> instances of the backend is already written and hopefully reasonably
> debugged; it can have a fixed or variable number of instances.

Or, I haven't tried mod_ruby, but I guess the same would apply. Each Apache
worker process will have one instance of the application? And I don't have
to worry about one object receiving multiple invocations from threads?

Regards,

Brian.