Hi Denis,

As Gerd kindly explained, using threads wouldn't help for scalability. It
turns out that it wouldn't help for stability either, because the workers
have to deal with R's (as in statistics softw'R) interpreter, and the
communication between OCaml and R is not bullet-proof right now. So I'd
rather have the computation isolated in its process, not to harm the
web-server.

Cheers,
  ph.



2013/3/28 Denis Berthod <casa.berthod@gmail.com>

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> Le 27 mars 2013 à 23:49, Gerd Stolpmann a écrit :
>
> > Am 27.03.2013 23:42:14 schrieb(en) Denis Berthod:
> >> Hello,
> >> Isn't the Lwt_preemptive module exactly what you want?
> >> http://ocsigen.org/lwt/api/Lwt_preemptive
> >> But maybe, you want to use real processes and not threads.
> >
> > In OCaml, only one thread may access runtime functions at a time, and
> because of this, only one thread at a time can run OCaml code. So you
> exploit only one core with a multi-threaded program. I guess this does not
> meet Philippe's scalability requirement, and he wants to use processes
> instead.
> >
> > Gerd
> >
>
>
> Indead, I have only considered the stability problem that can be tackle by
> real threads as they don't block the lwt runtimes during computation.
> Howerver, you are right concerning the scalability.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Denis
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>
>
> >
> >> Cheers,
> >> Denis
> >> Le 26 mars 2013 à 15:29, Philippe Veber a écrit :
> >> > Dear all,
> >> >
> >> > I'm developping an ocsigen website doing some scientific
> calculations. Up to now, the calculations were done in the same process
> that runs the server. In order to gain in scalability (and maybe stability
> too), I would like to run those calculations in a separate (pool of)
> process(es). As this is a pretty typical setup, I guess quite a few people
> have already done that. So I'd like to hear some suggestions on what
> library to use in this particular context. It seems to me that the release
> library [1] should do the job and is lwt-friendly, but there are maybe
> other good options?
> >> >
> >> > Thanks for any hint, cheers!
> >> >
> >> > Philippe.
> >> >
> >> > [1] https://github.com/andrenth/release
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