Update documentation of usage with Gunicorn + gevent/eventlet about python-socketio HOT 5 CLOSED

The doc update for gevent-websocket is being discused in #1272. I'm taking care of that.

Disabling long-polling allows you to use multiple workers in Gunicorn correct, but it has some disadvantages. And even without the sticky sessions, you still need to use a message queue for the workers to coordinate. I have been thinking about how to explain this in the documentation without making it even more convoluted than it is and at some point I'm going to reorganize the docs to better convey these options in addition to the more traditional ones. I have an issue for this work as well #1239.

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References to gevent-websocket have been removed.

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@miguelgrinberg sorry I know you're still working on #1239, but I'm wondering if you could briefly elaborate on these disadvantages:

Disabling long-polling allows you to use multiple workers in Gunicorn correct, but it has some disadvantages.

I'm currently exploring ways to get more throughput from my socketio servers, and using gunicorn with multiple gevent workers is something I was considering.

Any insight you have would be greatly appreciated!

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@lsapan I think this is less interesting than it sounds because in reality multiple workers have always been supported.

• If you want to use long-polling and websocket both: Run multiple single-worker Gunicorns (each on a different port), and put a load balancer such as nginx in front of them with sticky sessions enabled.
• If you want only websocket: You can run a single Gunicorn process with multiple workers, but clients attempting to connect with long-polling will get errors. This is because the Gunicorn load balancer does not support sticky sessions.

In both cases each instance of Socket.IO must connect to a message queue.

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@miguelgrinberg got it, thanks for clarifying! I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing some unforeseen issue.

Thanks again for such an awesome library! ✨

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