[Zope] Server specs.

[Petru Paler]

On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Alexander Staubo wrote:

> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Regarding the comments I received, we decided to use following
> > configuration for server.
> [snip]
> > 
> > Somebody any recommendations?
> > 

> Python is a real CPU sponge, and for this kind of load I'd definitely
> bump the horsepower up to a dual Pentium III Xeon 500MHz, 512KB L2
> cache. Around $1100 per CPU. That said, however, I don't know how well
> Linux scales to two CPUs; for web serving, recent benchmarks have
> pointed out that it doesn't scale well at all.

   Linux scales very well to two CPUs in the Zope scenario (the Mindcraft
benchmark was with 4 CPUs and 4 NICs running Apache). And kernel 2.4
(which will be out in late fall) will scale *extremely* well (most of the
work done was to improve scalability).

-Petru