[Zope] Scalability questions

[Toby Dickenson]

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On Tuesday 02 Jul 2002 2:58 pm, Phil Glaser wrote:

> This is great information. Just one clarification: you say that the amo=
unt
> of RAM needed by FileStorage for optimal performance

"optimal" is putting it politely. Either you give it enough memory, or it=
=20
slows to a crawl.=20

> is enough to hold its
> index, normally 1/10th of its disk space. Hence a 2G Data.fs would requ=
ire
> 200Mb. That's clear enough. You then say that "It needs at least the sa=
me
> again when packing." Are you saying that packing, in this example, woul=
d
> require 400MB RAM?

In this example, yes.

your mileage *will* vary.