That sounds suspiciously like the "Zope dying" problem that a lot of people seem to be having. You aren't by any chance using Postgresql are you? Regards, Phil +----------------------------------+ | Phil Mayers, Network Support | | Centre for Computing Services | | Imperial College | +----------------------------------+ -----Original Message----- From: Daniel Rusch [mailto:drusch@globalcrossing.com] Sent: 04 April 2001 19:33 To: zope@zope.org Subject: [Zope] Help: Zope is extremely slow Our user base has grown significantly in the last few weeks. Unfortunately at hours of peak usage Zope crawls to a halt and won't even serve up pages. we have NUMBER_OF_THREADS=4 would increasing this help? Actually when we I check the processes (with ps -fe | grep py) I only see two the root thread and the thread that runs as nobody? Anybody have any suggests to help the performance of the site? Dan _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )