[mod_python] Performance improvements: dynamic linking?

Graham,

Thanks for the great tip! Rebuilt Python with --enable-shared, rebuilt
mod_python - no problem at all. And it seems to have improved the overall
Trac performance slightly.

Thanks again!

With best regards,
J.R.

On Jan 9, 2008 11:20 PM, Graham Dumpleton <graham.dumpleton at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 10/01/2008, Jevgenijs Rogovs <jevgenijsr at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I'm experiencing performance issues with Trac (http://trac.edgewall.org/)
> ,
> > which were nailed down to mod_python, so now I'm looking for ways to
> > increase its performance.  First of all, it looks like on the system in
> > question it is linked statically (judging by the size of mod_python.so
> being
> > 4,991,304 bytes), but I'd like to build it for dynamic linking. The
> question
> > is - how do I do that? No matter what I try, the result seems to be the
> > same...
> >
> > Here's the environment: RH Enterprise Release 3 (kernel 2.4.20-8),
> Apache
> > HTTPD 2.0.54, Python 2.5.1, mod_python 3.3.1.
>
> The problem is that you didn't configure and install Python such that
> it generated a shared library for Python. Nothing to do with
> mod_python.
>
> For details see section 'Lack Of Python Shared Library' of:
>
>  http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/InstallationIssues
>
> This is for mod_wsgi (which performs better again than mod_python for
> WSGI hosting), but still relevant.
>
> So, fix your Python installation. That is all you should need to do.
>
> Graham
>
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