22 Mar
2002
22 Mar
'02
5:47 p.m.
On Friday 22 March 2002 5:47 pm, Chris McDonough wrote:
The ZEO server is a shockingly lightweight process, so there are no *performance* reasons to put it on its own box.
This isn't entirely true... on very high-load sites, a ZEO server process can consume a fair amount of resources...
I've seen the ZEO server crank the load average on a Dell 2550 up to over 2.
Not bad for a single-threaded process ;-)
But we're talking *very* high load... on the order of ~ 400 requests/sec with a fair number of writes.
Interesting. which storage was it using?