"J. Atwood" wrote:
I have been testing and asking about this for a month now and here is what I found.
I have a Pentium 133 with 96 MB running RH 6.0, Apache, Zope and whole bunch of Java development applications (it is loaded). It has about 10 development servers on it only one of which is Zope. I have a home page which is the same one as one on a NT 4.0, SQL 6.5 box (not sure about specs but am sure it is high end). I have run queries through 95,000 records, reloaded the home page hundreds of times and run smaller queries over and over again. What I found is that the NT box is only faster when it comes to the big 95K select. I can load the Zope homepage about five times to every once on the NT. The small queries are just as fast.
Yeah, sounds like my 133. :) The RAM is certainly one of your limiting factors.
I am moving to a production box for Zope that will be a 300 PII, 256 RAM, 6 GB drive running just Apache (I am thinking proxy pass) and Zope with PostGreSQL. I will be testing all aspects of site when I get it up and running by this weekend and will report back.
One of my servers has a near identical setup, and performs _very_ well. Faster than every NT server running roughly comparibly scripting the windows side of the shop has thrown at it has done. :) -- In flying I have learned that carelessness and overconfidence are usually far more dangerous than deliberately accepted risks. -- Wilbur Wright in a letter to his father, September 1900