On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 05:43:15PM +0200, Andreas Jung wrote:
--On Montag, 6. Oktober 2003 17:41 Uhr +0200 Wouter Vanden Hove <atheist@pandora.be> wrote:
Hi,
I have Zope and Plone installed on a Pentium 266Mh with 64 MB Memory. And the site is running slow.
I bet it is :-) I think you mean Pentium II. As far as I know, the Pentium / Pentium MMX family topped out at 233 MHz.
What is the most simple (and cheapest) way to increase its speeds? A new CPU, or could buying some more memory (like 256Mb) be enough?
Your hardware is obsolete. Try more RAM and then a new CPU. Best to degrade your P266 to a door stopper.
While it's certainly not speedy by modern standards, that would have been a pretty common spec around the time of zope 2.0.0 :-) By far the quickest and least painful speed boost will be to do as Andreas suggests - either put the best CPU and most RAM you can fit on your motherboard, or scrap the motherboard and start with something more modern. You may not need a current-model speed demon, either; I've got a bunch of happy zope sites in the 800 MHz / 256 MB range. If you are determined to save money and spend time, there are plenty of ways to speed up zope on slow hardware. First, read this: http://www.zettai.net/Howto/zopecaching/view There, you will find some useful links including: http://plone.org/Members/limi/news/caching-tweak Another useful cacheing tool, not mentioned on the zettai page, requires a proxy such as Apache and a bunch of free disk space: Andy McKay's FSCacheManager. http://zope.org/Members/andym/FSCacheManager best downloaded from cvs on the collective project: http://sourceforge.net/projects/collective Finally, I've really been tempted to give psyco.sf.net a try with zope, though I haven't heard of anybody giving it a real workout on a public site yet. A few anecdotes are floating around... http://zope.nipltd.com/public/lists/zope-archive.nsf/47ba74c812dbc5dd8025687... -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com Look! Up in the sky! It's NUTLESS SPONGIFORM VIXEN! (random hero from isometric.spaceninja.com)