Hi Oliver, interesting article at: http://www.sysadminmag.com/articles/2001/0107/0107a/0107a.htm which (in part) addresses your questions. i quote: "Our benchmarks demonstrate a 12x performance difference between process-based and asynchronous task architectures. Significantly, we found up to a 75% overall performance difference between OSes when using the most efficient asynchronous architecture. We found Linux to be the best performing operating system based on our metrics, performing 35% better than Solaris, which came in second, followed by Windows, and finally, FreeBSD." the 2GB file size limit is not an OS limit on linux: it is a limit on the Ext2 file system. several journalling file systems for linux offer max. file sizes beyond 2GB (at least in theory). check out reiserfs, xfs etc. i owuld be curious to know if anyone is running a production server with one of these filesystems. also, file storage for ZODB is not the only option: there are alternative storages available which could help to get round file size contraints: check out oracle storage/berekely storage for this. On 18 Jun 2001, at 13:02, Oliver Erlewein wrote: From: Oliver Erlewein <erlewein@gmx.de> To: zope@zope.org Subject: [Zope] 2GB Limit & Best Zope Platform Date sent: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:02:22 +0200 (MEST)
Hi
I'm piloting Zope for our company on a small Intel WS running under Widows NT (4.0 & Zope 2.3.2). Now I have to prepare the production server (medium sized, ~500Users, ~25 concurrent users). My question is, which server/OS is the best to use. Our provider is inclined that we use an Sun / Solaris server. Is there a reason not to use Sun/Solaris?
What about the 2Gb filesize limitation on some OS? Does that apply to NT / Solaris / Linux /FreeBSD (or is that problem solved with Zope 2.4.x ? ;-) ).
Thanx Oliver Erlewein (erlewein@gmx.de)
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