[Zope] Global Interpreter Lock and four processors...

[Tony McDonald]

Hi all,
We have a four processor Sun box (each processor scores about 2400 
pystones, whereas a 500 MHz P3 gets about 5400 pystones).

I have three zope installations running, one of which is hosting 
three subsites. If I create four *binary* installations of Zope 
(complete with the thread-safe MySQL adaptor and all the other python 
libraries necessary to run a Zope site), will I run into the global 
interpreter lock?

What I'm saying is if I *don't* use /usr/local/bin/python for my Zope 
installations, but instead rely on ZOPE_HOME/bin/python, will I be 
able to spread my Zope sites out over the four processors, or is 
there a nasty sting in the tail in doing this?

thanks in advance,
tone.
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