[Zope] performance issues

Phil Harris phil@harris-family.info
Mon, 28 Oct 2002 11:27:53 +0000


Linux doesn't report resource usage per thread.

The number you see (60Mb) is shared between all threads, so if you have 5 threads then you are using 12Mb per thread.

hth

On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 03:24:37 -0800 (PST)
John Doe <gvd_76@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm running a Zope-application (2.5.1, Python 2.1.3)
> on a dual processor (1 GB mem) Redhat 7.3 machine.
> User-authentication is done by the
> exUserFolder-product (on Postgresql 7.2.1). An
> apache-server runs in front of the Zope server.
> 
> Now for the problem/questions. 
> Problem: unacceptable performance with 200
> requests/sec. 
> Questions: 
> - which steps can be taken to improve performance ? 
> for the moment 6 child processes are running which
> each use 60 MB of memory (?isn't this alot) ;
> increasing the number of threads will probably help,
> but if each thread will probably use 60 MB
> - how good is the smp-support of Zope (Python) ?
> 
> 
> Thx in advance,
> ronny.
> 
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