On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 06:14:14PM -0400, Ben Boeckel wrote: > My team and I would like to know whether the community would be accepting of > such a project (which includes a daemon) if it were written in Python rather > than C or C++. No problems here, MirrorManager includes several daemon processes written in python. The only real problem I have with python is the memory manager. I have to constantly think "gee, if I read this file line by line and do something with it, will my RAM needs grow to 10-20x the size of the file?" And I love python on x86_64 - it makes people buy twice as much RAM from Dell! * So, go for it. If it turns out that python is inefficient for parts of the problem, you can always split those parts out. I had to split out the mirrorlist_server bit from the mod_wsgi app, to get the benefits of shared pages (fork() on a 100+MB process) w/o killing Apache with duplicate processes but no sharing. * (no kidding: the mirrorlist_server process takes 125MB on x86_32, 250MB on x86_64. ugh.) -- Matt Domsch Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux _______________________________________________ Fedora-infrastructure-list mailing list Fedora-infrastructure-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-infrastructure-list
