[Zope-dev] more Zope2.6 fun: ZEO client death.

[Shane Hathaway]

Andrew Sydelko wrote:
> It's faster especially compared to ZEO 1.x, but also compared to earlier 
> versions of ZEO 2.x/ZEO from ZODB3.1.x.
> 
> At one point, changes were made to the initial cache invalidation check 
> that caused ZEO startup time to become significantly faster.
> Before this change the ZEO client would take more than a minute to start 
> (with a cache_size of 200MB).
> 
> We've not tried ZEO from ZODB3.2.x yet.

Oh, right.  I was concerned for a moment that a minor change in ZEO 3.2 
had slowed it down somehow.  But you weren't talking about that.  Whew.

Jim and PythonLabs put a bunch of work into optimizing ZEO cache 
validation earlier this year, and now it's quite speedy.

Shane