[Zope] Degrading performance with redirects?

[Richard Barrett]

At 11:50 03/12/2001 +0100, Jonathan \(Listserv\) wrote:
>Hi,
>
>We're experiencing a problem with a Zope based site that serves most of its
>content via redirects, the new location based on results from a PostgreSQL
>database.
>
>The weird thing is that the Zope site becomes very slow after a week or two,
>which is fixed by restarting Zope. It doesn't seem to be a memory problem
>(512MB free out of 768MB total) or a load problem (server is 99% idle most
>of the time). Zope has about 5 Gigabytes of storage available, running on
>Red Hat Linux 7.1.
>
>The homepage is served by a redirect:
>
><dtml-call "RESPONSE.setHeader('content-type', 'text/html')">

It's probably completely irrelevant but why the setHeader for the 
Content-type. If this is a straight redirect to another URL then there is 
no entity in the response body to identify the type of. Maybe removing this 
extraneous operation could make a difference.

><dtml-call "RESPONSE.redirect('nl/another.page')">
>
>The rest of the site is basic DTML, building tables based on results from
>the database with a few if's here and there.
>
>Could it be that the '.' in the redirect causes problems? Or the setHeader?
>
>Any ideas? Thanks!
>
>Jonathan
>
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