[Zope] Extremely slow connection on local network (Zope 2.2.5, Win2k)

[Chris McDonough]

If you visit localhost via the IP address (127.0.0.1), do you experience the
same problem?


----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Gushee" <mgushee@architag.com>
To: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 3:16 PM
Subject: [Zope] Extremely slow connection on local network (Zope 2.2.5,
Win2k)


> Hi, folks--
>
> I'm trying to set up a Zope-based intranet web site for my company, but
> there's a very puzzling performance issue. Basically, any attempt to
> connect to the server from another machine on the local network is
> really, really slow: for example, I just visited the default home page
> (the "Welcome to Zope" page that comes w/ the installation), and it took
> 25 seconds to load. More complex pages can take over a minute. I don't
> think Zope itself is running slowly, because if I log onto the server
> and access the site locally, it pops right up. I'm also running IIS on
> the same machine, and have no trouble accessing the IIS website from
> various hosts (I did make sure they weren't trying to use the same port
> -- Zope is on 8080, IIS is on 9680).
>
> Here's some info about the environment:
>
> Server Platform:
> ----------------
> OS: Windows 2000 Professional w/ Service Pack 1
> (installed w/ Norton Ghost)
> Hardware: Celeron 600 Mhz, 160MB RAM
> Quirks: I added PyXML and ReportLab to <zope_dir>\lib\python. I also
> added an external
> path with some other python packages to sys.path in z2.py.
> There is a separate Python 1.5.2 installation on the machine.
>
> Network:
> --------
> Type: Ethernet 10-base-T, single subnet
> Router: FlowPoint DSL
> OSs: Mainly Windows 2000, with one Solaris box and a small but varying
> number of Linux,
> NT 4.0, and Win98 boxes.
> Domain Controllers (2): Windows 2000 Server running in mixed mode
>
> By the way, we have frequent performance problems with the network, but
> nothing nearly as severe as this. We suspect that not having enuf client
> licenses for Win2k Server may be part of the problem, but I don't see
> why that would affect Zope, especially since IIS seems to be fine.
>
> I would greatly appreciate any suggestions you may have.
> --
> Matt Gushee
>
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> Architag International
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