the machine is linux/intel pentium 3, 700mhz, 512mb, scsi raid running kernel 2.2.14. this machine belongs to zope (&apache) and some legacy data importer. our ZODB is small (~3mb) since all content is hosted in oracle, except for images which are served by apache anyway. we cache zsql queries quite extensively. currently the python process is about 30mb, i think i've seen it as big as 80mb though. the load avg. is typically around 0.1 - 0.3, ie. not much.
Cool thats similar configuration and a similar design to our site. Im upping the number of threads as I type...
(apart from the problem that our oracle context engine sucks a little, but thats another story :))
Im having similar problems with ZODBCA, but thats another problem... :) Cheers, thanks for the advice! -- Andy McKay