[Zope-dev] ZServer speed enhancement (I hope)

[Brian Lloyd]

> I got to poking around inside medusa's guts and said, "Hey,
> asyncore.poll() is the innermost loop, why not rewrite it in 
> C?" So I did.
> 
> <snip>
> I hope that for heavily loaded sites with many 
> connections that
> it will produce a noticable performance improvement. But then, you
> probably shouldn't try this on a heavily-loaded site yet, 
> unless you can
> tolerate some downtime... If you want to make this a standard piece of
> Zope (or medusa), that's okay by me, just let me know.

Andy - 

Do have any sense yet of the speedup? Just some basic load tests 
using ab against a specific set of URLs with and without the patch
would provide some not-very-scientific-but-still-useful feel for 
how big the win is...

Brian Lloyd        brian@digicool.com
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