[Zope-dev] Serving big files thru zope?

[Marc Lindahl]

On Monday, March 1, 2004, at 02:43  PM, Dieter Maurer wrote:
> In order to reduce memory consumption and decouple Zope from
> ZServer (and the response delivery), a large file
> is spooled via a temporary.
>
> This means, that the file content is read from ZODB, stored
> in a temporary file and then delivered from this temporary file.
>
> At least, when your client has a high bandwidth to your server,
> this serving through a temporary file is a waste.
>

I found that putting my /var partition (the default place for zope's 
temp files) on a very fast SCSI disk with plenty of space (GB's) 
improved the situation tremendously....