On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 03:05:28PM +0200, Gerhard Haering wrote:
> My question was if SCGI for example uses threading internally or if I'm
> stuck with one (1) concurrent request when using SCGI as a Quixote
> backend? How about mod_python?
>
> Anybody can answer this, pleaaaase?

With the caveat that I'm not an expert on this, but I have read the
docs and discussions here about SCGI for a while and done some limited
work with mod_python and fastCGI so far...

SCGI, like fastCGI, uses one or more server *processes*, not internal
threading.  That is also, I think, the mode of operation of mod_python,
except it runs within Apache's worker threads rather than as an
external process.  So they all support multiple simultaneous queries,
but not multiple queries per process.

Aside from promiscuous sharing by default, which can easily be more
hindrance than help if you aren't careful, multiple processes are what
threading wants to be when it grows up.  :-/

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