[PyWrapper-devel] First impressions...

[Peter B. <p.w...@re...>]

Dear All,

I'm just getting to grips with PyWrapper so please be gentle with me!  
I've installed PyWrapper on my Kubuntu Edgy desktop (AMD3200 2Gb RAM) 
and have a few observations and questions:

I've installed from an anonymous checkout using both the standard 
install script and to the system using apt etc - both seem to work 
fine.  Unfortunately the instructions for using FastCGI do not work on 
my system - I think this is because Kubuntu packages Apache in an 
awkward way.  I'll look at providing documentation at some point but for 
now I'll just use as a standalone server.  Out of interest what is the 
distro of choice in the PyWrapper community?

The next problem I have is that there is a considerable delay between 
running start_server.py and the server actually coming online (I've 
timed it to 3mins 10secs).  Whilst in itself this isn't such a big deal 
(after all I'll only be (re)starting the server very occasionally once 
I've got everything live!) but I'm worried this is indicative of a 
problem.  Can anyone give me their experiences on startup times?

Once up and running the server seems very responsive most of the time 
but occasionally it can become very slow.  I'm just working with the 
MySQL training database so it's just a standard installation.  Using the 
Query Forms, it can happily return various requests but some times a 
search request (both DWC and ABCD) seems to stall the server.  After 
this point the server stops responding for quite a long time until the 
connection times outs.  Is this a CherryPy issue do you think or perhaps 
a problem with the version of MySQL / MySQLdb?  Are most PyWrapper users 
running standalone servers or are they using FastCGI and Apache?

Many thanks

Peter