How does mod_wsgi handle requests (in daemon mode)?

Question

I am building a Bottle wsgi application and trying to understand how mod_wsgi handles each http request for the wsgi script file.

Does each request use a separate process until the script has completed (and then release it) or can one process handle multiple requests with threads?

Answer 1

Either is possible. See the mod_wsgi docs on this question. I believe the default is to use 15 threads and 1 process. The WSGIDaemonProcess configuration directive allows you to control this in Apache.