[Zope] 2 Zope instances on a 2 CPU linux server

Jens Vagelpohl jens at dataflake.org
Thu Jul 28 09:46:46 EDT 2005


On 28 Jul 2005, at 14:11, Pascal Peregrina wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I would like to know what if using taskset (CPU affinity utility on  
> linux) to bind each Zope instance to one single CPU can improve  
> overall performance of both instances in any way ?
>
> As far a I know, python can not fully take advantage of 2 CPU cause  
> python threads are not OS threads.

The cost you save is the cost of processes and thread switching  
between CPUs, which may happen depending on the OS and kernel versions.

jens



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