We’re researching the use of Python and mod_wsgi running under apache for developing some extensive web applications. Here are some notes on a performance test that we recently ran.
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Server:
x86_64
Python 3.1.1
mod_wsgi 3.0c5
apache 2.2
RHEL 5.3
quad core xenon
8 GB ram
Development system – not in production use.
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Application:
1 import time
2
3 def application(environ, start_response):
4 status = ‘200 OK’
5
6 [...]
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Python 3.1 and mod_wsgi performance notes
Posted in AppCove, Engineering, Linux, reSearch, tagged Apache, mod_wsgi, Performance, Python, python 3 on October 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Update [1] on Fedora vs Redhat Enterprise Linux
Posted in AppCove, Linux, reSearch, tagged EPEL, Linux, RPM, YUM on February 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This is in reference to http://blog.gahooa.com/2009/01/18/fedora-or-redhat-enterprise-linux-in-a-production-environment/.
After the excellent comment by Sergio Olivo, I did some heavy looking into the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux project (EPEL for short). On a brand-spanking-new RHEL 5 box, I installed the YUM repository for EPEL, and quite immediately had access to tons of extra packages. Erlang is there. Git [...]
Fedora or RedHat Enterprise Linux in a production environment?
Posted in AppCove, Linux, reSearch on January 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
[UPDATE AT http://blog.gahooa.com/2009/02/08/update-on-fedora-vs-redhat-enterprise-linux/]
At AppCove, we run RedHat Enterprise Linux on all of our servers. RHEL is great, because:
It works
It still works
Automatic security updates
Did I mention, it just works?
RedHat, as far as I know, takes a very serious perspective on patching all of their RPM’s and automatically pushing them out via the update agent (up2date). They [...]
