[Zope] Minimal Zope Install - True Story

[Pavlos Christoforou]

On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, J. Atwood wrote:

> Zope uses what it can take. On the machine with 12MB it uses this..
> 
> SIZE SWAP  RSS SHARE STAT  LIB %CPU %MEM  CTIME COMMAND
> 6592  816   332 S       0  0.0  5.9   3:06 python
> 6592  816   332 S       0  0.0  5.9   0:00 python
> 6592  816   332 S       0  0.0  5.9   2:04 python
> 6592  816   332 S       0  0.0  5.9   1:54 python
> 6592  816   332 S       0  0.0  5.9   1:39 python
> 6592  816   332 S       0  0.0  5.9   2:46 python
> 
> I am sure on a machine with 5 GB it would use most of it. Such is the nature
> of Linux (I think). It goes up and down with usage and with packing the
> database.

What I fail to understand is how can Zope consume more memory than (number
of threads*size of Data.fs file), which assumes that all objects are
awakened even their existing older versions. If on the other hand one
accesses files on the filesystem then it is conceivable that those files
(depending on OS) will be cached, by why should they appear under RSS?

In anycase I am not accerssing any files on the filesystem so am I right
to assume an upper limit of (number of threads*size of Data.fs file)?

Pavlos