Ever since I started using Zope I thought its management interface was a little sluggish. Today I found out why, and the correction is very easy. If you are running Zope in development mode, especially in Unix, you will notice a healthy improvement in responsiveness. It turns out that because of a small bug, every time a DTML file is read from the file system (including management pages) it is re-parsed whether the file was modified or not. The reason is because the current logic checks not only the file modification date but also the file access date, which changes every time the file is read. Open lib/python/App/special_dtml.py in a text editor. Change one line (probably line 115) from: t=os.stat(self.raw) to: t=os.path.getmtime(self.raw) Restart Zope and enjoy a slightly faster development cycle! ;-) Shane