Suitability of Python for daemon processes

[Chuck Anderson]

On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 06:46:05PM -0400, Ben Boeckel wrote:
> Seeing as it is a mirroring daemon, the network is the bottleneck. If it isn't 
> then either you're sitting next door, our implementation is bad, or the 
> hardware shouldn't be a mirror in the first place.

Speaking from experience, the network isn't always the bottleneck.  
I/O performance is often a performance problem, especially when 
walking the directory tree to build filelists.  CPU performance can 
come into play if you are performing hashes or compression of the data 
to be transferred.  I suggest you post your message to the Fedora 
mirror-list-d where I'm sure you'll get lots of feedback.