[Zope] Zope.org performance (Was Re: [Zope] Front door on the Zope web site)

[Paul Everitt]

"Jay, Dylan" wrote:
> and make fixing the zope.org site a top priority. Going to the MS site and
> seeing how slow it is gives me no faith in ASP. Same applies here. The Zope
> site MUST run fast if people are to trust in it no matter what the technical
> reason for its extremely slugish performance may be. I've given up looking
> at it (>1min is my limit).

Believe me, it couldn't be a higher priority.  We ordered a new machine
for on Friday and the stupid computer company sent it 3 day instead of
next day.  Sigh.  It should be in today.  Zope.org will then run by
itself on a modestly powered machine.

Some notes on this.  Zope.org is sharing a PII-350, 256Mb machine with a
lot of other services, namely these mailing lists.  We'll also use it as
an opportunity to move to mod_fastcgi, switch to not doing reverse DNS
lookups in Apache, and another of other "transition" improvements.  In
the interests of getting things under control, putting it on its own box
will be an imminently sane thing to do.

Still, we do need to keep an eye on making the software perform better. 
I'm very very interested in the cache information reported earlier. 
We'll tinker with that today on a test site.

--Paul