Ok, so I heard back from a few people yesterday talking about how the test was just serving static content and therefore is not really a "true" test. It is, though, a test of what Zope + Tomcat can do in terms of static performance. To be fair, I decided to have them do a basic "connect" to a database and see what would happen. Zope Machine: RH 6.1, 300 MHz, 256 MB RAM, 8 GB EIDE Drive - Zope. 2.1.4 Tomcat Machine: RH 6.1, 500 MHz, 512 MB RAM, 3 x 9.1 SCSI in RAID - Jakarta Tomcat 3.1 Both with PostGreSQL 6.5.3 installed from RPM. No modifications at all. The .jsp page just tests the database connection. If it can get to the database it returns a string. (I will include the source at the bottom). Ran this about 5 times here is the best. Document Length: 353 bytes Concurrency Level: 25 Time taken for tests: 9.354 seconds Complete requests: 100 Failed requests: 0 Total transferred: 75430 bytes HTML transferred: 35300 bytes Requests per second: 10.69 Transfer rate: 8.06 kb/s received Connnection Times (ms) min avg max Connect: 0 11 63 Processing: 120 2061 2959 Total: 120 2072 3022 I then modified my Zope test page by creating a ZSQL Method that just does a simple select (select name for table where id = '1000') No biggy. I dropped that into the test.html page and made it display the name. Here is what I got after five or so tests. Document Path: /test.html Document Length: 172 bytes Concurrency Level: 25 Time taken for tests: 2.857 seconds Complete requests: 100 Failed requests: 0 Total transferred: 37875 bytes HTML transferred: 17372 bytes Requests per second: 35.00 Transfer rate: 13.26 kb/s received Connnection Times (ms) min avg max Connect: 0 0 2 Processing: 63 627 800 Total: 63 627 802 While I am not being totally blown away by the results I am starting to get the big picture. I was also asked to try it against resin. Which I did last night and send the results. I tried it again this morning and while it would perform well in the first test it would die in the second test and need to be rebooted. Don't know what this is but will keep looking into it. Next? To create a cgi script, in Python to get the same data and run it on Apache. Now that could be interesting! Also would be to put Zope on the same machine, but for now,being 3 x faster on a slower machine is just fine with me. :) JMA Source of .jsp with some HTML removed. <%@ page language="java" %> <%@ page import="savant.server.beans.GSSessionBean" %> <%@ page import="savant.server.util.GSUtil" %> <jsp:useBean id="sessionBean" scope="session" class="savant.server.beans.GSSe ssionBean" /> sessionBean.setDBDriver("postgresql.Driver"); sessionBean.setDBURL("jdbc:postgresql://localhost/gs1"); sessionBean.setDBUserID("userid); sessionBean.setDBPassword("usernam"); <%= sessionBean.gstest() %>