From what I can determine Zope does or should run on Solaris on a Sun server. Is that assumption correct.
Can anybody point to any resources or have any comments/opinions-- like what versions of Zope/Solaris seem to be compatible, any special issues/requirements?
Except for the fact that it will seem dog slow, Zope runs fine on Solaris. The major issue seems to be that the threading model in the Solaris libc is especially punitive for long-running, multi-threaded Python applications.
Dog slow as compared to what? I would prefer to do the absolute minimum in terms of tuning. Most of my experience with Zope and otherwise is with Windows. Can I potentially get by just installing and running? How would it run that way on a current Solaris server with appropriate memory compared to say running on a P4 3meg Win2003 machine with appropriate memory.
I would recommend running multiple appserver processes, each with a single "worker" thread, rather than trying to run a truly multi-threaded appserver; you will then need to load balance them (e.g., with Pound).
I am not exactly sure what you are saying -- is this something to be done at the Zope end or with Solaris knowledge or both?