[ZPT] ZPT Speed Tutorial Wanted

Shane Hathaway shane@zope.com
Thu, 12 Sep 2002 11:08:05 -0400


Andy Meier wrote:
> I tried adding a cache manager as suggested but it seems to only shave a few 
> milliseconds off the rendering time of pages.
> 
> I don't think I grok the behavior of the cache.  In the tab that reports 
> cache hits and misses, every request was reported as a cache hit (I used the 
> default 6 minute interval).  When viewing the page, however, all the dynamic 
> sections were still loading the dynamic output (aka: different banners, the 
> proper user name, etc.) which makes me think the cache does not work the way 
> I expect.
> 
> Does the cache cache the output of an object or does it somehow cache the 
> object in a way to make it more quickly accessible to the parser?

I'm guessing you used the Accelerated HTTP cache manager, which has no 
effect unless you're using an HTTP accelerator in front of Zope.  Use a 
RAM cache manager instead.

Shane