I have an AMD athlon XP 1800 with 1G DDR333 ram that I installed 66 days ago on a server and it has not crashed or had any problems. It gets about 19000 pystone/second and pystone translate directly to zope performance in
On a dual Xeon 2.2 ghz machine [bkc@strader ~/Zope]$ Zope-2.6.0-linux2-x86/bin/python Zope-2.6.0-linux2-x86/lib/python2.1/test/pystone.py Pystone(1.1) time for 10000 passes = 0.51 This machine benchmarks at 19607.8 pystones/second [bkc@strader ~/Zope]$ Zope-2.6.0-linux2-x86/bin/python Zope-2.6.0-linux2-x86/lib/python2.1/test/pystone.py Pystone(1.1) time for 10000 passes = 0.48 This machine benchmarks at 20833.3 pystones/second [bkc@strader ~/Zope]$ Zope-2.6.0-linux2-x86/bin/python Zope-2.6.0-linux2-x86/lib/python2.1/test/pystone.py Pystone(1.1) time for 10000 passes = 0.5 This machine benchmarks at 20000 pystones/second [bkc@strader ~/Zope]$ Zope-2.6.0-linux2-x86/bin/python Zope-2.6.0-linux2-x86/lib/python2.1/test/pystone.py Pystone(1.1) time for 10000 passes = 0.49 This machine benchmarks at 20408.2 pystones/second longer run: [bkc@strader ~/Zope]$ Zope-2.6.0-linux2-x86/bin/python Zope-2.6.0-linux2-x86/lib/python2.1/test/pystone.py Pystone(1.1) time for 100000 passes = 4.82 This machine benchmarks at 20746.9 pystones/second It's a wintec rackmount box and annoys the hell out of me due to it's noise. Brad Clements, bkc@murkworks.com (315)268-1000 http://www.murkworks.com (315)268-9812 Fax AOL-IM: BKClements