[Zope] Editing downloaded + installed product?

[Ian Blenke]

I'm running Zope at home on a dual-celeron 500 with a RAID array
and a large data.fs (approaching 1.5gb). Whenever I need to stop
or restart Zope it takes between 5 and 10 minutes to finish. 

Imagine embedding Microsoft XLS, Word, Visio, or any other form 
of native file within a ZODB objectstore (for an Intranet 
application)... How big can your data.fs store grow before it 
takes *hours* to roll forward transactions to quiesce Zope into 
a running state?

How much pain are you willing to put up with before you drop
versions and undo's to eliminate the need for transactions?

It's beginning to look like the DBM store may be my best option.

How much effort would it really take to store Zope pickles into 
LDAP space? :)

- Ian C. Blenke <ian@blenke.com>
Wizdom - http://wizdom.blenke.com/

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Anderson [mailto:bill.anderson@libc.org]
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 1999 8:59 PM
To: zope@zope.org
Subject: Re: [Zope] Editing downloaded + installed product?


Tres Seaver wrote:
> 
> Stefan Hoffmeister <Stefan.Hoffmeister@Econos.de> wrote:

...

> >
> > 19 seconds delay, combined with the "manual" action of shutting down
> > the server + starting it up again - I perceive that as an eternity.


Why manually? Why not go to the Control panel and select restart?
Works great for me on several servers.

> >
> > What do I do in these 19 seconds?
> 
> You catch up on Zope mail -- what else? :)  FWIW, it takes my (almost
empty)
> ZServer about 3.5 seconds to restart on Linux.  You might try packing the
> database, perhaps?

One of my servers resides on an HP C3000, restarts in <5 seconds, with a
Data.fs file of ~4MB.

I would second the reccomendation to pack the database.

Bill


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