[Zope] Zope slow if left unused for hours

[Jonathan Hobbs]

From: "Jeff Rodriguez" <jeffrey.rodriguez at gmail.com>
> I'm running Zope with Plone, specifically the windows installer
> version distributed on the Plone website. The first time I hit the
> site (even the ZMI) the first page takes a long time to load;
> everything after that is speedy.
>
> I'm thinking it's some sort of caching issue but I'm not sure where to
> look to remedy the probelm. I am not running debug mode either.

We encountered the same problem, and agree that its probably a cache-loading
issue.  We never discovered the cause, but we have a work-around:  we run a
cron job which does an http request to grab a page from the web site every
10 minutes - this seems to keep the cache 'fresh'.

Jonathan