On your Linux boxes running Zope and Squid, do you have any issues with users accessing your site with AOL dialup and the AOL browser? This question goes out to anyone who cares to answer, also... We are moving to a Zope on Linux with Squid setup within the week. Currently on Windows 2000 and Zope 2.4 with a Windows version of Squid. The site moves very fast in general but now AOL users are complaining of 5+ minutes load times if it loads at all. Has anyone come across this? Thanks -----Original Message----- From: Mario Valente [mailto:mvalente@ruido-visual.pt] Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 4:42 PM To: zope@zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] Caching... At 21:06 20-11-2001 +0000, Chris Withers wrote:

Chris McDonough wrote:

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Usually, if you don't cache or serve only static content, you can't running a high-volume site using Zope or mod_perl or ASP or whatever-else; it's as simple as that.

What about something like Google? How do they get around it?

I'm sure caching isn't the only option...

This discussion is so pointless... FYI Google has upwards of 10.000 (thats TEN THOUSAND) linux machines serving as frontends for their service. And although Google's pages are dynamic, they're basically the same script run over and over again with little or no images. So caching is not the only option; its just that I'm sure you dont have Google's budget. What you're trying to do is asking Zope to DYNAMICALLY generate Squishdot pages (probably full of database accesses and images). But you're doing this on a PC (no hardware specs were specified) running Windows (!) and on a DSL line. If you try to do something similar with ANY OTHER platform (lets say Apache+PHP+PHPNuke; or IIS+ASP+some forum software or other) you're also going to get into the same kind of problems. If you compound this with the fact that you're also clueless (e.g running Zope without knowing what -S is for; or, for that matter, running any software without knowing what you're doing), you're in for a lot of trouble. Please, dont answer "I'm a writer, not a programmer". THAT is precisely your problem. You want to be able to build rockets without taking a course in rocket science. Dont misunderstand me; you can still fire rockets or build amateur rockets; just dont try to reach the moon. Here are some tips: - enable caching on Zope - change from Windows to Linux - install more RAM on your PC - get more CPU for your PC - put Squid in front of your Zope - fine tune your Zope to use only the necessary command line switches - pack your Zope database frequently - stop all the other software that you might have running (i.e. dedicated server) - create static versions of the most accessed page(s) - you might have a memory leak somewhere; plug it We're running a consumer portal with about 1 million hits per day using 2 frontends (regular PC machines) connected to 1 backend (server PC). C U! -- Mario Valente _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )