I have read somewhere that zope does not take advantage of dual cpus on NT. My default install of 2.4.3 using zserver on NT4 confirms this. Is there a way to put that extra CPU to use? Scott -----Original Message----- From: D. Rick Anderson [mailto:ruger@comnett.net] Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 10:09 AM To: zope@zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] [HELP] Choice of a NT server We've used the Compaq ML-370 with Dual P3-1.13GHz cpus and 1GB of RAM for all of our Zope servers and they work awesome. I would look for something similar. As much as I hate to admit it, I've had better experiences with Intel cpus where servers are concerned. As for Zope on different platforms, we're running 3 Zope servers on RH 7.x and 1 on Windows 2000 Server and we have more problems with the 2000 box than the other 3 combined (it needs to be rebooted frequently). My only argument for 2000 is that data access is REALLY easy using ODBC drivers (that's the only reason that we have the 2000, we have a series of older database servers that we couldn't connect to with linux but had ODBC drivers for). Rick Chris McDonough wrote:

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Hello,

I have a question about wich processor/memory, etc.. i should use

in order

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to run my Zope Site :

As fast as possible, as much memory as you can afford. ;-)

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In fact, i have no idea about the style of server that i should

buy in

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order to run my site properly. My site (a commercial extranet)

whill be

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used by 300 users, and i do think that there will be 80 users

concurently

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(simultaneous). They will just browse the Web pages and sometimes

download

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files (MS Office).

I would recommend that you run this on some UNIX variant instead of NT/2000 if you intend to use a front-end webserver. Zope interfaces better with Apache on UNIX than IIS on Windows, allowing it to run much faster (in a multithreaded mode). It's possible to use Apache on Windows, but I'm not sure if it's as stable as the UNIX versions.

And then of course, there's the "religious" argument: NT crashes, NT is slower, etc. etc. I dont buy this in lots of cases, but for Zope, its development is done almost solely on Linux. It always helps to be running on the OS that the software is developed under to avoid heretofore-unforeseen problems. (As an example, Windows 3.1 ran great on Compaq Deskpro 486's but failed miserably on other machines.. that's because it was developed almost solely on these particular machines ;-)

- C

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