[Zope] Re: ZEO with Multiple Storages

[Brian Brinegar]

> > One ZEO server can deal with multiple storages just fine.
> > Transactions involving multiple storages commit just fine.
>
> Caveat: You buy nothing by having a single ZEO process serve several
> ZODBs when you're trying to decrease commit times. You should run a
> ZEO process per ZODB you're serving out, that way the writes can be
> segregated and parallelized. That also makes it easier to move
> processes/databases around disks/hosts to spread I/O load.

Just to clarify, you are saying that a single ZEO server would not be
able to deal with multiple storages simultaneously and that a
transaction in one storage would block transactions in all other storages.

However, if we were to run multiple ZEO processes this would not be the
case?

-Brian