[Zope] Large XML files

[Edward Muller]

Definetly consider a stripped down linux install for this machine instead. just
make sure almost nothing else is running as well (A lots ditros start all sorts
of stuff up for you).

Edward Muller - edwardam@home.com - edwardam@handhelds.org
Grow a ponytail -- view it as your telepathic antenna to other Linux Kernel Developers. -- Jeff V. Merkey

On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Jim Hebert wrote:

> You could check into the ExtFile product (search on zope.org) and see if
> that makes a perf difference.
>
> That said, just about anything on that setup is going to be slow!!
> Please excuse the os advocacy, but given that this is likely all you'd
> dream of running on this server anyways (ie it's not like it's also going
> to be your Exchange server), you might consider putting something that
> will leave more spare RAM and cpu time for Zope on that box, e.g. Linux or
> some other OS more suited towards the low end server hardware market.
>
> Or buy a nicer box to run this on. If you don't have existing unix skills
> in-house then throwing money at hardware might be less expensive than
> investing in human resources to get a Linux box going. (Whew, being
> even-handed is so much harder than being an OS bigot...;-)
>
> Sorry that's probably not what you wanted to hear. =)
> jim
>
> On Tue, 5 Dec 2000 paul_s_johnson@urscorp.com wrote:
>
> > I am testing the possibilities of delivering the content of  XML Documents
> > through the Zope environment.  Unfortunately, some of the proposed file are
> > rather large (up to 760KB) and just uploading them and viewing them on our
> > current Zope server is prohibitively slow.  Our server, running Z2 is a
> > blazing P133 running NT 4.0 with 32 MB of RAM (I get the bottom feeders).
> > Is the bottleneck the hardware; is there something I can do software-wise
> > to improve performance; or is development not yet advanced enough to handle
> > this scenario efficiently? Any opinions on this?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > P. Johnson
> >
> >
> >
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