[Zope] Re: Scalability issues

[Martijn Faassen]

Elliot Lee wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Squishdot wrote:
> 
> > I found the references to the tweaks that Bruce did to his site:
> >
> > http://technocrat.net/932767939/933005001/933015973/933173345/933182540/index_html
> > http://technocrat.net/933171945/933179349/933179911/index_html
> 
> It talks about how to fix up apache in general to work better on a slow
> system, and perhaps tweak Zope a bit, but it doesn't seem to address the
> main problem itself - doing lots of requests on a unspeedy object makes
> Zope fall over. While it would be nice for Squishdot to be faster, the
> main problem is that Zope just stops doing ANYTHING once there has been a
> connection overload. Even if I kill all the wgets, new connections just
> sit there hanging forever.
> 
> I would blame Zope for the problem, but I lack the Python & Zope expertise
> to solve it, sorry.

I've heard reports about 'hangs' with the new Zope2 betas before; I
haven't experienced them myself but the Zope Portal Toolkit beta
testsite did suffer from them.

I also heard fixes were in the making, but I don't know the details on
that. There's a new beta out soon that supposedly has these fixes,
though (if it doesn't, that's why it's a beta :)

Regards,

Martijn