[okfn-help] further to load on us0

[Martin Keegan]

On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, John Bywater wrote:

> Interesting.
> 
> FWIW if that Python code is KForge, which uses Django, which recommends 
> service execution with pre-fork rather than worker Apache, and you're 
> limiting requests to workers, then switching Apache may help.
> 
> http://djangoinproduction.com/wiki/Prefork_MPM_or_worker_MPM
> http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/browse_thread/thread/e64b80f4ef3d61a9
> http://www.mail-archive.com/django-users@googlegroups.com/msg13695.html
> 
> But in any case, making sure the processes terminate will refresh the 
> parts other garbage collectors don't reach. :-)

Thanks guys; those are all useful links.

Debian seems to want to prevent you from installing both prefork and
worker mode Apache simultaneously for separate instances, and I don't know
what of our software other than Django has assumptions about Apache's
process model.

Anyway, us0 is looking like less of a crimescene now. We can have the
"what should kforge look like" discussion later.

Mk