[Zope] Add File much slower than FTP, by at least 20 times

[Dieter Maurer]

David Elfstrom writes:
 > I did some timing of a 1.5MB PDF file to two installs of Zope, one on a 
 > local desktop and one on a remote site over a network.
 > 
 > Situation A:
 > Zope 2.5.1/Windows on Windows 2000, locally
 > Browsers: Mozilla & IE6 on Windows
 > 
 > Situation B:
 > 
 > Zope 2.5.1/Solaris on a remote Solaris 2.6 box over a 10Mbit connection
 > Browsers: Mozilla & IE6 on Windows
 > 
 > If I FTP to the zope server on port 8021, I can put the 1.5MB file in Zope 
 > very quickly.
 > Situation A: 0.8 seconds (approx)
 > Situation B: 1.5 seconds
 > 
 > But if I use the "Add" button from the management interface, using either 
 > Mozilla or IE6, it takes the following times:
 > Situation A: 35 seconds
 > Situation B: 2 minutes 30 seconds.
Are you sure, you use "enctype=multipart/formdata" to your action?

FTP can be slightly more efficient than HTTP. But this order of
magnitude is astonishing.

I would probably activate profiling (--> "Control_Panel->Debug information -> Profiling) and see where the time is spent.


Dieter