[Zope] This is completely bogus but..

[Bill Anderson]

Ng Pheng Siong wrote:
> 
> On Thu, May 11, 2000 at 11:17:19AM +0100, Chris Withers wrote:
> > I'd love so see Zope provide a facility for updating of products without
> > restarting the server. It'd make python product development time a lot
> > quicker and besides, restarting the server every time you rev a python
> > product or two isn't really the sort of thing you want in a production
> > system...
> 
> This might not help everyone, but I've been developing my products
> on a Zope running off a FreeBSD MFS (memory filesystem), with symbolic
> links to Data.fs and my product source which live on disk. Restarting
> feels slightly faster than from disk. I didn't time it, though.
> 
> I had a quick look at Linux's ramdisk HOWTO and all that, but didn't
> see how to do the same thing.


I did this a long time ago on Linux. IIRC, I got it down to a few
seconds for a largish (~50MB) Data.fs. The entire Zope folder was on a
ramdisk. Wasn't too difficult, but wasn't really worth it IMO. Should
e in the archives somewhere, for ast year IIRC.

Bill