[Zope-dev] ZEO on SMP

Jeremy Hylton jeremy@digicool.com
Wed, 23 May 2001 20:26:00 -0400 (EDT)


Since a single Python process has a single global interpreter lock,
you'll never fully utilize a 2-processor machine.  The lock is
released whenever a socket call (send, receive, listen, etc.) is made,
so that provides some opportunity for using two CPUs, but not much.

Jeremy