----- Original Message ----- From: <sean.upton@uniontrib.com> To: <zope@zope.org> Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 12:24 PM Subject: RE: [Zope] TUX and Zope? + ab results
Caching w/ TUX, AFAIK, isn't going to be as efficient as Squid. I think that likely the reason is that TUX is a webserver and not a cache, and that (if TUX can cache; I think it can just proxy!) the overhead to proxying likely mitigates a lot of the magic marshmallows in TUX like Zero Copy, checksum caching, etc - a network copy is going to add latency, and cache machinery is going to eat some CPU cycles. Somebody correct me if I am mistaken here.
Tux might work well with ExtImage/ExtFile and TUX's machinery for serving some URLs and passing on others to another server (Apache, ZServer...). For predictable content, that is served over and over, seems like Squid in http accelerator mode is a better solution...
The idea to integrate Python and Zope into the Linux kernel is cool. But only for the purpose to say "I am a cool geek - I am running Python in my kernel" :-) Anyway....you would not get a major speedup by integration all the stuff in the kernel because it would increase the speed of Zope and Python significantly. Andreas