[Zope] Scaling problems, or something else?

[Jens Vagelpohl]

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On 16 May 2007, at 11:04, Paul Winkler wrote:

> On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 10:47:11AM -0500, Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
>> On 16 May 2007, at 10:13, Gaute Amundsen wrote:
>>> Hm.. yes, that's the way we have been inclined.. just skip the
>>> whole ZEO
>>> thing, and go straight for Varnish integration. Lotts of old sinns
>>> that have
>>> to be paid off for that to work for everything however..
>>
>> I don't think he advocates removing ZEO. That would be silly.
>
> Why? I don't think ZEO is a panacea that magically makes apps faster
> in all cases.  If you're not CPU-bound, the added network overhead and
> increased chance of write conflicts might be a net loss.  Based on
> everything he's said so far, it sounds like Gaute still has plenty of
> headroom on his CPU.

There's a difference between scaling and making something faster. ZEO  
makes a single instance slower, right. But you can deal with more  
requests concurrently using ZEO. That's what I consider "scaling".

jens



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