[Stackless] irc threads

[Adam Bark]

2009/7/8 Rach <rachie at oasiz.net>

> Hello,
>
> I am new to Python, but playing with an irc server (made with python of
> course) and am finding a problem with accepting more than 1000
> users/connections.
>
> I've googled for a while and ended up here as it appears to be something to
> do with the "thread stack limit". Does anyone know if that is correct and if
> stackless python will help?
>

If your using a seperate thread per user/connection then I would suspect
that you are right. Stackless should be able to help as you can have tens of
thousands of tasklets on a normal PC.


>
> If so, do you think the edits will be huge?
>
> The only real threading bit is this: threading.Thread.__init__(self)
>
> Thanks so much for any help you can give me.
>

Erm.. without seeing your code it's hard to say for sure but you should just
be able to switch the thread making bit with making a tasklet from the same
bit of code.
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