[Zope] Zope performance documentation

[Dieter Maurer]

Fabio Rolando wrote at 2003-3-31 16:57 +0200:
 > First of all thank you a lot for you attention.
 > I'm quite new to Zope so it is still difficoult to understand how it will 
 > work when the system will be deployed.
 > We need to size the system for (all values are the absolute maximumwe 
 > expect) 10.000 authenticated users, 10.000 documents (5000 pdf with 200 Kb 
 > average size, and 500 html), 1000 hits/minute. Do you think we can use Zope 
 > alone (no ZEO, no Apache)?

My Zope can handle about 20 hits per second (on
a 1.4 GHz AMD). However, I doubt this will work for 200kB requests ;-).

Think about caching the pages.

Think about directly delivering static pages from a Web server
in front without going through Zope.


Dieter