[Zope] Setting up a dedicated Zope box

[Toby Dickenson]

On Friday 22 March 2002 5:47 pm, Chris McDonough wrote:

>> 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.

Not bad for a single-threaded process ;-)

>  But we're talking *very* high
>load... on the order of ~ 400 requests/sec with a fair number of writes.

Interesting. which storage was it using?