[Zope] Speeding up Zope - Squid works GREAT

[Itamar Shtull-Trauring]

I set up Squid as an HTTP accel in front of Zope.  I ran ab 100 times with a
concurreny of 10 on the same machine Zope and Squid were running on.  Squid
is 10 times as fast as plain Zope.

Zope:
Concurrency Level:      10
Time taken for tests:   4.891 seconds
Complete requests:      100
Failed requests:        0
Total transferred:      2807500 bytes
HTML transferred:       2778800 bytes
Requests per second:    20.45
Transfer rate:          574.01 kb/s received

Connnection Times (ms)
              min   avg   max
Connect:        0    26   239
Processing:   128   440  1183
Total:        128   466  1422


Squid:
Concurrency Level:      10
Time taken for tests:   0.503 seconds
Complete requests:      100
Failed requests:        0
Total transferred:      2987772 bytes
HTML transferred:       2952132 bytes
Requests per second:    198.81
Transfer rate:          5939.90 kb/s received

Connnection Times (ms)
              min   avg   max
Connect:        0     3    27
Processing:    35    42    52
Total:         35    45    79

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Itamar S.T.  itamars@ibm.net