On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Jason Jones wrote: :As I understand it, this scheme would pretty much create a cached copy of :the rendered object which would itself live in the ZODB. It seems like there :is still a performance penalty with keeping the cached item in the ZODB :though (even when the object is in-memory), for instance I can serve 30-40 :concurrent static DTML Documents from ZServer on my machine, but when I :render the same material to disk and serve from apache the performance leaps :ahead. Maybe a top-level cache should bypass the ZODB altogether if it can, why not just use some separate subsystem for caching, eq. a squid in httpd accelerator mode? it would be necessary to set appropriate cache control headers and expiry dates. i think this would be possible with zope? peter. _________________________________________________ peter sabaini, mailto: c c c p@oeh.tu-graz.ac.at, http://oeh.tu-graz.ac.at/~cccp/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Any sufficiently perverted technology is indistinguishable from Perl. (ca. a.c. clarke) -------------------------------------------------