hi all zope is faster now. i think i know why, just wanted some confirmation from the zopistas. setup: apache in front of zope on a rh 6.1 linux what happened: -got a lot of simultaneous connect in one time. whe the number of connect exceeds 200, zope started slowing down. and i mean really slow. -tried putting squid in front, still not much improvement. -set up cache headers again. i did this earlier on, but was not successful. now: -got less then 100 simultaneous connect. zope runs beautifully. what i think that solved this: -setting the cache headers. at first, i put the headers in standard_html_header, before any html documents. later, i put it after <head><title> tags. and i think i can see the cache headers on. HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 09:15:33 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.12 (Unix) (Red Hat/Linux) mod_fastcgi/2.2.4 (mod_pcgi2/1.0.1; PCGI/2.0a5) PHP/3.0.12 Cache-Control: must-revalidate,max-age=120 Expires: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 09:17:06 GMT X-Powered-By: Zope (www.zope.org), Python (www.python.org) Content-Length: 14508 Last-Modified: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:24:22 GMT Content-Type: text/html so, i guess, it does matter where you put the cache headers. is there a limit on how many simultaneous connect zope can handle? apache ( i know it's different) can handle much higher traffic with not much complaints. so, correct me if i'm wrong here guys! thanks -- ------------------------------------------------------ http://www.kedai.com.my/kk Am I Evil?