Simon Willison’s Weblog

Load spikes and excessive memory usage in mod_python. “The final answer? Stop using mod_python, use mod_wsgi and run it with daemon mode instead. You will save yourself a lot of headaches by doing so.”

Posted 16th March 2009 at 5:26 pm

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