[mod_python] Performance Problem

I see. Maybe this should be added to the docs so it will be more
clearer of what "in one subintepreter" mean.
Anyway, thank you very much for your patience and explanations :)

Sebastjan

On 20/08/05, Graham Dumpleton <grahamd at dscpl.com.au> wrote:
> Sebastjan Trepca wrote ..
> > Ah, sorry about that question. As I understand it means that you
> > basicaly can set the intepreter that gets copied to all processes that
> > are spawned, else blank interpreter is used. If your globals doesn't
> > change this would be quite useful then, da? But not quite for caching.
> 
> Sorry, still not quite right. Interpreters are not copied from anywhere.
> Each interpreter is always effectively blank when first created. They
> are created fresh direct within the child subprocess, they aren't copied
> from the main Apache process. Upon being created an interpreter is
> loaded with any builtin Python modules and then the mod_python
> "_apache" and "apache" modules, but that is it. Only other modules
> which might be loaded at startup are those specified using the
> PythonImport directive. Subsequently for the specific request, the
> module for a handler might then also be loaded etc.
> 
> There is nothing magic about differently named interpreters, whether
> they be explicitly named or the default ones based on virtual host name,
> they are just a way of maintaining some seperation between web
> applications so they don't interfere with each other by clobbering
> each others data and/or modules.
> 
> Graham
>