[Zope] Setting up a dedicated Zope box

Chris McDonough chrism@zope.com
Fri, 22 Mar 2002 12:47:51 -0500


> The ZEO server is a shockingly lightweight process, so there are no
> *performance* reasons to put it on its own box.

This isn't entirely true... on very high-load sites, a ZEO server process
can consume a fair amount of resources... I've seen the ZEO server crank the
load average on a Dell 2550 up to over 2.  But we're talking *very* high
load... on the order of ~ 400 requests/sec with a fair number of writes.
For "normal" sites it certainly would make sense to run the ZEO process on
the same box.

- C