[Zope-dev] Zope and SMP

[Jason Spisak]

Thilo Mezger:

> hi!
> 

Howdy.

> yesterday, i have test-driven zope on a dual-pentium smp-machine
> running linux 2.2 and i was very disappointed by the results.
> the zserver threads are running on both cpu's but it seems to
> scale really, really badly. i have only done some very cheap
> benchmarking but it seems that a single cpu is faster than 2 cpu's.
> 
> but as i said, this is not proper benchmarking (yet).  i wanted to
> ask if someone has already tried zope on more than 1 cpu and/or
> could point me to a direction where i could find out more about
> this subject?
> 

I have our intranet running off a dual Xenon 350Mhz running 2.2.12-20smp
and things are terrific. I haven't ran any comparisons either, but speed
isn't an issue.

> cheers!
> thilo
> 
> 
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All my best,

Jason Spisak
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