On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 03:55:20PM -0500, Neil Schemenauer wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 12:43:54PM -0800, Mike Orr wrote:
> > My understanding is that Quixote has neither threads nor an
> > asynchronous model, so all other requests will freeze  while a
> > search query is running.
>
> If I understand your problem, async is not going to help.  You need
> multiple threads or processes.

If I understand right, Twisted's SQL libraries allow the query to run
while other requests are being handled.

> > Does it matter which webserver adapter a threaded application
> > uses?  I'm undecided between SCGI, FastCGI, and mod_python.  I'm
> > currently using CGI for development.
>
> It sounds like you might be using a Unix system.  I suggest trying a
> multi-process SCGI server.  You can also configure FastCGI to use
> multiple processes.  mod_python is multi-process by nature, AFAIK.

It's running on Linux now, but it may have to switch to Windows in the
future if company policy changes.  So I'd rather have a portable solution
than a Unix-only one.

Thanks for your help.

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