[Zope] slow site

[J. Atwood]

Hey Tim,

A couple of things could be happening.

- Lots of tables with images in them. The browser has to wait for the entire
page with all the images before it can display the page. Break up the tables
and it will load faster.

- Need more RAM. I was running Zope 1.6.1 on RH with 16MB of RAM and it ran,
but really slow. Same sort of thing, would be slow to start up and serve the
files. 32 is really not enough. That combined with your tables is going to
slow the site down. On my same box (166 Pent) I added 128MB and now it
screams. Ram is the key.

J





> 
> Hey everyone,
> 
> My Web site is acting very sluggish, and I wonder if someone has an
> explanation or suggestion. I'm running Zope 2.1.6 behind Apache. Apache is
> also serving a number of other very low traffic virtual hosts. My site,
> also, is very low traffic. The "server" is a cast-off IBM Pentium 120
> desktop machine w/ 32 MB RAM and 4.3 GB IDE drive. The server is on a T1
> connection our school's ISP.
> 
> The site address is http://www.isd197.k12.mn.us/ Notice in particular
> the long delay while the browser is contacting the host. Everything loads
> pretty quickly once the page starts appearing.
> 
> A non-Zope, purely static page on the same server,
> http://www.comed.isd197.k12.mn.us/, loads much more quickly.
> 
> Site notes:
> The Slashdot-esque news items are being gathered from the ZCatalog for
> display and the headlines on the right are generated via Amos's RSSChannel
> and XMLDocument products. There's not much else to the site's homepage.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> -Tim