[Zope] Zope.org performance

[Jeff Rush]

I see such large amounts of memory here as well -- when I have
a 60M database and just two users (it's our demo machine).  The
OODB contains 30 directories of 20 files each of 100 KB text.
When we fire up /manage and peek into one of those dirs,
<wham> up goes the load, until I restart the server and then
it drops down to nothing.

Oddly, accessing the site via FTP seems to place little load,
so I presume the Zope persistence mechanism is reading
into memory the entire content of each 100 KB object, just
to present it in a list on the manage screen. (?)

We're looking at switching to placeholder Zope objects
and storing the text as static web files outside Zope.

-Jeff Rush


On Tue, 19 Oct 1999 02:16:49 +1000, Ben Leslie wrote:

>Whilst my site is not get huge amounts of hits (yet :). I have been needing
>to suck the content from using wget.
>When I do however my system really starts to thrash badly and checking the 
>top output I get this:
>
><snip>                        MEM                 CPU% MEM%
>30200 www-data   6   0 60328  56M   872 R       0 13.2 45.5   1:40 python
>30212 www-data   0   0 60328  56M   872 S       0  0.0 45.5   0:00 python
>30213 www-data   4   0 60328  56M   872 R       0  9.0 45.5   3:11 python
>30214 www-data   1   0 60328  56M   872 S       0 10.4 45.5   3:09 python
>30215 www-data   8   0 60328  56M   872 R       0 18.7 45.5   3:01 python
>30216 www-data  10   0 60328  56M   872 R       0 19.1 45.5   3:14 python
><snip>
>
>
>My site is only medium size (~200 pages, 16MB), however as you see it seems
>to use a fiar bit of memory, is it normal for it to use so much memory even
>thought my data.fs is 16mb (packed).