[Zope] Optimisation fun and games

[Richard Jones]

On Mon, 20 May 2002 18:17, Chris Withers wrote:
> Richard Jones wrote:
> > 2) Two apache frontends using FastCGI to the ZEO clients.
>
> Is FastCGI doing you any favours here? Have you tried ProxyPassing?

*shrug* - I inherited it.. Anthony? :)


> >    we just serve up different domains (we have many) from each. Watch the
> > max number of connections per apache though - we've had to up it several
> > times.
>
> Have a look at using Squid instead of Apache, it's what ZC have done in
> siutations like this...

The apache serves up a bunch of other stuff - and as Anthony's mentioned, 
almost none of our pages are static.


> > One very interesting thing to note though is that the webmail part of our
> > service is done in PHP. It's running on the same machines as the apache
> > frontends. It doesn't seem to struggle at all. Not that we'd ever dream
> > of writing something as complex as ekit in PHP :)
>
> Indeed. Do you use ZPT? If so, join the lets-optimise-ZPT campaign ;-)

Nope, nothing quite so new-fangled as that... large amounts of the dtml have 
the old dtml syntax too :)


   Richard