I set up Squid as an HTTP accel in front of Zope. I ran ab 100 times with a concurreny of 10 on the same machine Zope and Squid were running on. Squid is 10 times as fast as plain Zope. Zope: Concurrency Level: 10 Time taken for tests: 4.891 seconds Complete requests: 100 Failed requests: 0 Total transferred: 2807500 bytes HTML transferred: 2778800 bytes Requests per second: 20.45 Transfer rate: 574.01 kb/s received Connnection Times (ms) min avg max Connect: 0 26 239 Processing: 128 440 1183 Total: 128 466 1422 Squid: Concurrency Level: 10 Time taken for tests: 0.503 seconds Complete requests: 100 Failed requests: 0 Total transferred: 2987772 bytes HTML transferred: 2952132 bytes Requests per second: 198.81 Transfer rate: 5939.90 kb/s received Connnection Times (ms) min avg max Connect: 0 3 27 Processing: 35 42 52 Total: 35 45 79 -- Itamar S.T. itamars@ibm.net