On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 12:23:06PM +0100, Chris Withers wrote:
egf05@doc.ic.ac.uk wrote:
My Data.fs is huge (21GB) because it contains many video files. This is not a problem in itself, however, I recently had to reboot my machine and now zope takes around 20-30 minutes to restart. Is a fstest automatically done ? How could I accelerate the restarting, if possible ?
Use ZEO.
I can see how that could let Zope restart faster. But ZEO can have *severe* performance implications for large blobs such as videos. See the bottom of http://www.slinkp.com/code/zopestuff/blobnotes Maybe worth noting that DirectoryStorage starts up fast regardless of storage size. http://dirstorage.sourceforge.net/ It also does not require RAM proportional to storage size. It is also very reliable and has some other nice features. The downsides: - You need a filesystem that can handle very large number of tiny files. - Packing is VERY slow (21 GB could easily take all night). - Somewhat slower than Filestorage in general. - Requires more disk space (+30%). This page is old but maybe still useful: http://cvs.zope.org/ZODB3/Doc/storages.html?rev=1 -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com