[Zope] Memory consumtion of a zope instance

[Jens Vagelpohl]

>> besides, 11-18 MB of RAM consumption for a zope process really isn't
>> much at all.
>
> that depends on the view. after 20 instances between 220 and 360 MB 
> are eaten.
> a bad thing if your server has only 256 MB. Furthermore this makes disk
> access slower as the "zope overhead" throws out disk cache pages.
>

IMHO trying to run 20 zope instances on a machine with just 256 MB of 
RAM is, err, insane.

zope is not lightweight like you average apache process. it likes RAM. 
and it will take more and more as the content on your sites grow since 
the ZODB index is stored in RAM.

jens