So we're using Pylons and Python in general for our new company platform. We just bought a server with 4 cores to help us reach our scalability goals, but there are a few questions I'm interested in asking the Pylons community.

I (mostly) understand the nature of "threads" in Python. From my understanding, the GIL locks the interpreter to executing only one Python thread at a time, but C modules can take advantage of a Python application being multithreaded, because they can operate independant of the GIL. Presumably, this would mean that there is, in fact, a benefit to using threads in Paste, because most network I/O bound stuff happens within a C module.

Given this situation, I believe that despite paste making an effort to be multithreaded, it would still be advantageous to run a cluster of four Pylons instances and proxy to these using nginx.