Webware for Python

Hi Chuck Esterbrook,

on 30-Nov-2001 you wrote:

> On Thursday 29 November 2001 02:09 pm, Ian Bicking wrote:
>> There's still something about Netscape 4.x, despite all it's lameness,
>> that keeps me coming back from time to time. _It's just so much more
>> responsive than all the modern browsers, even IE (though Opera could
>> probably win me over if I gave it a chance).

I can only recommend galeon 1.0 to all of you seeking for a better Linux
browser. It combines the speed of NN4 with the superior rendering engine
and privacy functions of Mozilla with added bonuses like "Auto Bookmarks"
(bookmarking all open windows in case of a - rather rare - crash), the
best bookmark editor/handling I have seen so far in ANY browser on x86 OSes,
completely Mouse-configurable UI and arbitrary mixing of tabbed and windowed
browsing.

I guess once it gets to version 1.1, finishing off some more small bugs, I'll
probably daresay its better than IE.

Regards,
        Fionn

Hello all,


During the last weeks I have managed to set up all major components of a
web-based educational simulation for a group of German science and finance
institutions where participants can lead their own small simulated industrial
manufacturing company to success (or bancruptcy) in a virtual market against
others. All dynamic and calculatory components of the site as well as the
backend are completely python/psp based and worked out their first runs pretty
well during the last weeks, with about 390 virtual companies and far more than
1000 participants from schools and "real" companies all over Germany.

Besides migrating the system away from python 1.5.2 sometime now, I have to
deal with another slightly annoying issue: The Appserver threads, starting at
an approx 2.7MB memory footprint, are constantly growing at a rate of about
10-30MB a day, bringing the system to halt in less than 2 weeks if no AppServer
restart is made in time.

As I said all dynamic pages are psp, inheriting a special base class which
provides login functionality as well as database connectivity and a number of
often used methods. Nothing special, it seems.
I would like to hear your speculations and advice on what could be possible
causes for such memory leakages and how I could possibly get an insight into
what data the (running) AppServer processes are holding in memory or how I
could trace possible problems.

Regards,
        Fionn

P.S.: As an amusing footnote, I'd like to add that I ported the fairly
      complex "market model" simulation core from MS VB because the company
      that originally invented it was strictly MS-only and failed to provide a
      server system/software combination capable of handling a substantial
      number of groups without constant dropouts and failures.

Does probably not solve your problem, but: When I moved to W2k I decided to
install Apache instead of IIS5 and downloading and applying a bunch of
patches needed for it. Now I do not need an exe anymore to run Webware. I
use the AppServer and Oneshot out of CVS now, and everything's fine.

Cheers
Franz

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> Has anyone had any success connecting webware to IIS in a
> non-OneShot manner?
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