[Zope-dev] How to make Zope fail nicely under high load?

[Richard Jones]

On Thursday 12 February 2004 01:23, Casey Duncan wrote:
> What kinds of requests are these? Do they all require a dynamic output?
> If not, then you should put better caching in front of Zope, or at a
> minimum tweak you caching headers so that some could be served as 304s
> for instance.
>
> If they are all dynamic, how dynamic? How different is the page for one
> session than another? If much of the page is the same then you might
> benefit from an ESI approach where you cache parts of pages and assemble
> them in the cache, serving only small pieces from Zope.
>
> I'm a bit surprised that you have not (from what I can see), used the
> most common Zope speedup (and often the cheapest overall): Buy more
> hardware and use ZEO.

I was going to suggest these things too. And a bunch of other stuff. A while 
ago, I wrote a page about making Zope go faster - it might help.

  http://zope.org/Members/richard/docs/zope_optimisation.html


     Richard
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