Hi, i write to tell you that zope can do much better but even much worser. the site www.tradinglab.com is powered by 4 netfinity and each of them is capable to handle about 150000 hits a day for a total of 600000+ hits. we use a modified kernel (see the linux virtual server pages, www.linux-vs.org) and apache+zope. the "worse" part is that the 2 biprocessor machines rate really bad when compared with the monoprocessor ones. and under a heavy load zope does much better when forced to use only 1 or 2 threads. with more threads it just lock. the problem is more evident on the 2-processor box, maybe evidentiating a deadlock problen. if you want better statistics i can post to this list the webalizer generated html pages. ciao, federico -- Federico Di Gregorio MIXAD LIVE System Programmer fog@mixadlive.com Debian GNU/Linux Developer & Italian Press Contact fog@debian.org Nobody will ever need more than 640k RAM! -- Bill Gates, 1981 Windows 95 needs at least 8 MB RAM. -- Bill Gates, 1996 Nobody will ever need Windows 95. -- logical conclusion