Re: [Mod-pubsub-developer] Pushlets and Mod_pubsub and getting connections.

[Joyce P. <tru...@ya...>]

--- Kragen Sitaker <kra...@ai...> wrote:
>
> Apache is *not* very scalable when it comes to dealing with lots of
> concurrent connections.  It's very scalable to lots of transactions
> per second, just like Tomcat, but it doesn't cope well with long-lived
> clients either.

But just to be crystal clear:  the Python server doesn't suck up Apache
threads/processes.  Apache forwards the first request, and possibly serves the
other parts of a page in which a Mod-pubsub section is embedded... but after
that, Apache is entirely out of the loop.  I find that this is a very common
misunderstanding about Mod-pubsub, so I want to clarify.  JP