[Zope-dev] Re: DBtab and BDBStorage

[Dieter Maurer]

Richard Jones wrote at 2003-6-6 09:01 +1000:
 > > - Use ZEO.  It makes starting/stopping Zope much faster and isolates 
 > > the application from the database.
 > 
 > I've noticed that this pattern doesn't hold with Zope 2.7 as it 
 > currently stands. Even on a powerful machine the ZEO clients can take 
 > quite some time to start up. Does anyone know why this might be? I'm 
 > talking here about a brand-new ZEO server with practically empty ZODB. 
 > No additional Products.

Starting Zope loads several hundreds of Python modules. This may take
some time.


Dieter