[Zope] Setting up a dedicated Zope box

[Bill Anderson]

On Fri, 2002-03-22 at 10:47, 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.  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.

Chris, how high of an rps would you expect a nicely powered (say, dual
Athlon 2000+, 1-2GB RAM) ZEO Server to handle, roughly speaking?


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