oo zopistas i have a question. being a small time site maintainer, i don't quite know how to classify the situation i'm having now. the site is front ended with apache, with mod_pcgi2. zope 2.2.0 (running with -t 25) and rh 6.2 how can i know that the load i'm having is a big load? i've been getting more than 200 simultaneos connections(ps ax|grep http|wc -l) and that affect the response time. if the connection is less than 150, then zope's response time is great. my Q: what do you BIG SITE admin have? do you encounter slow down? i need some sort of verification that more than 200 simultaneous connect is really a big load. i hope not to have to resort to other costly and proprietery solutions just because of my ignorance. i know table design does affect loading time, and that will be tackled. cache is an option that i've looked at but have to disregard for now since i can't get ie to behave. i know of the how to and will be looking at it. i've scaled the site (was once more than 400 connections at one time) with ZEO to two servers. i now hope to have insights from yu BIG SITE admins looking forward to your input, help, and pointers. i'll try and document every thing and put a howto. thanks