Make the openerp-server a deamon
The openerp-server.py file already implement the --pidfile option, but it's not yet a real implementation of "deamon" process.
Processes usually become daemons by forking a child process and then having their parent process immediately exit, thus causing init to adopt the child process.
Why we don't implement a full deamon inside openerp-server.py ?! So we can "demonize" the process :)
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- Joël Grand-Guillaume @ camptocamp
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I would go a little further and ask that it'd not only daemonize, but also correctly fork/thread out.
For each database, a separate orm/osv/database connection daemon could fork out.
Then, each client could easily get a client daemon child process connecting to the orm/osv/db daemon for that db.
This way, OpenERP would become massively more scalable than it is today, without adding much complexity.
Not only that, but when a client goes away, it's child process would die, and so would it's used memory, which can become quite a problem in OpenERP servers.
The main orm/osv/db daemon would be much less memory 'leaky' and inherently more stable.
I think the easiest way for this would be to use the multiprocessing module, which is new in 2.6 but has been backported to 2.5, and is the only way ( I know of) to do this platform independently
Python 2.4 for OpenERP is horribly broken anyway, they should own up and drop support for it OR massively fix it.
