[Zope-dev] Warning! TransparentFolders and ZClasses

[Jason Spisak]

R. David Murray:

> On Thu, 4 May 2000, Jason Spisak wrote:
> > How is this different from having the 30,000 objects that I have in one of
> > my instace folders?
> 
> How do you manage to get Zope to even respond with 30K objects in
> one Folder?  You must be using boatloads of memory.

That's a yes. 1 gig of memory.

Actually I don't use the management interface for these folders as you
probably guessed :)

Well I have a folder called Candidates which contains 15,000 candidates,
and each candidate contains a resume.  Isn't that 30,000 objects in the
Candidates namespace?

> This does bring up an interesting question though.  A suggestion was
> made earlier that it would be nice to have a BTree based folder type
> to remove the limitations inherent in the current Folder data
> structure, allowing the efficient placement of many objects in
> such a BTree folder.  So the question is, if you do that, what
> performance impact does acquisition have on such a large collection
> of objects in one folder?

Goo question. Michel P. and I talked about that before I brought this
product online.  He mentioned the BTree based folder.

All my best,

Jason Spisak
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