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

[Andy Dustman]

On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Brian Lloyd wrote:

> > 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...

To be honest, no idea whatsoever. I simply do not have a heavily-loaded
ZServer to try it on. But I may have some additional improvements later
today. 

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