I recently read a great explanation of thegeneral Apache 2 preforking server model ,and found it so lucid and simple that I was immediately inspired toimplement a generic preforking server myself. Their approach has a bitof overhead in parent/child communication, but it does mean that you donot have to pass file descriptors between processes; all you need issome way for the parent to talk with its children.

(Since Python's standard library doesn't have support for filedescriptor passing, the pragmatic advantages of

What DWiki is used to write about has drifted a fair bit from what Ioriginally wrote it for, and some of the choices I originally made nolonger seem so ideal. I've been thinking for a while that DWikiText , thewiki-text formatting language here, needs some more formatting features;this entry is at least in part me thinking out loud about them.

So, here are the new features I think I want:

• 'literal words', words that appear exactly was written withoutany special characters

This week, we:

• got 111,59 messages from 243 different IP addresses.
• handled 18,480 sessions from 1,401 different IP addresses.
• received 393,665 connections from at least 102,514 different IPaddresses.
• hit a highwater of 34 connections being checked at once.

Volume is up quite a lot from last week ; alsoup is how many different IP addresses are trying to send us email. My