[Zope] Storing many large objects in many folders

[Dieter Maurer]

Toby Dickenson writes:
 > ...
 > > but serving
 > > such big files blocks one of only 4 (per-default) of zopes worker threads.
 > > This means that 4 concurrent downloads make it impossible for someone
 > > else to get to your server,
 > 
 > No. Worker threads run as fast as they can, and are not constrained by client 
 > connection speed. Wirker threads transfer the response to the medusa thread, 
 > which spools the reponse back to the client. It can handle thousands of 
 > connections.
The worker thread needlessly copies the file and stores its
content in a temporary file.

Something that can be avoided when the file is directly served from
the file system.


Dieter