[Zope-PTK] hats off

[Jens Vagelpohl]

hi,

as a little explanation of what exactly happened: with all 18,500 Email
objects in one folder the opening of the folder in the management
interface would trigger a 5MB download. while zope did its job and sent
all the data across just fine, netscape crashed while trying to render
this undoubtedly mile-long page.

the workaround of creating 100 subfolders and spreading all Email
objects between them was used because people might think zope was at
fault had they ever tried to open that massive folder. with the way it
is on the CD there is about 200 objects per mail folder and it opens in
the normal fashion.

jens

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Everitt [mailto:paul@digicool.com]
Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2000 11:38
To: zope-ptk@zope.org
Subject: Re: [Zope-PTK] hats off


3) Scalability.  When Jens did the CD app, he loaded over 17,000
messages from 1999's Zope list. When you clicked on the folder and Zope
tried to send the contents of 17,000 items back, the HTML was enormous
(and the DTML took forever to render).  He solved this by arbitrarily
spreading the items over 100 subfolders.  However, there needs to be
some better subfoldering scheme (perhaps to the day?).