[Zope] Zope Performance and Large Databases

[Jay, Dylan]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michel Pelletier [mailto:michel@digicool.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 1999 06:48
> To: 'davidbro@namshub.org'; zope@zope.org
> Subject: RE: [Zope] Zope Performance and Large Databases
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: davidbro@namshub.org [mailto:davidbro@namshub.org]
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 1999 3:24 PM
> > To: zope@zope.org
> > Subject: [Zope] Zope Performance and Large Databases
> > 
>  
> > But being that I have several gigs of MP3's (don't start about
> > copyright stuff, these are ripped from my CD collection), we're
> > talking about a large number of ZClass instances (one per 
> song) stored
> > in the ODB.
> 
> Be aware that this will make your Zope object database massive and
> increse your memory requirements.  Perhaps it would be simpler to just
> serve the actualy MP3s out of a static Apache and let Zope just handle
> the 'meta' information?  If your running Linux, don't forget 
> that ext2fs
> has a 2GB file size limit.

I have a jukebox program written in zope that just uses an external method
to scan drives for albums and load this data into a RDB. Zope does all the
reports and playing an album is just a matter of redirecting to a file: url.
This works very well.