[mod_python] Multiple Interpreters mod_python optimization

On Fri, 15 May 2009 20:35:59 +1000, Graham Dumpleton
<graham.dumpleton at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> BTW, the process IDs in your 'ps' output don't even match what your
>>> Python code is producing. Looks like you aren't even talking to the
>>> same Apache instance.
>> I wasn't expecting them to match. The process id's from the python code
>> are the interpreter's pid not the apaches. What I wanted to show by
>> that was that it is stille the same apache processes (8 of them) but
>> I have 18 different interpreter process ID's. So it is not because I
>> hit a new apache process every time.
> 
> Did you read the document I told you to read about process/interpreter
> model of Apache/mod_python? As well as the blog entry?
> 
> The Python sub interpreters run in the Apache child processes. Thus
> the process IDs from your Python code must have some overlap with the
> Apache processes you listed.
> 
> Apache/mod_python does not create special Python interpreter processes.

Yes, I read it and it makes it even more odd that I get a new pid everytime
I call os.getpid(), that doesn't match the apache processes.

Best regards
Jakob Simon-Gaarde