[Zope] Zope Database Size

Rob Page rob.page@digicool.com
Thu, 3 Feb 2000 12:09:27 -0500


> > That helps, but I'm more interested on knowing if there is a size
> > issue.  Does performance degrade once the database gets to 
> a particular
> > size, for example.  
> 
> I'm afraid that I don't know, but I'd very much like to ;-)
> I'm working on the basis that I'll deal with it when it 
> becomes a problem, but I
> understand that may not be an acceptable proposition in your case
> 
> The following may interest you, although I don't know the size of the
> information stored in Zope.org:
> http://www.zope.org/AboutZopeOrg

The ZODB deactivates objects that aren't needed.  As a result, you
couuld have a 1.5Gb ZODB and use a very small amount of memory -- say
40MB.  You could have a 200MB ZODB and by virtue of your application
design have every object in memory at once -- using say, 250MB of
memory.

There is no DIRECT correlation between ZODB size and performance and
memory use.  LOTS (most?) depends on how your  particular application
behaves.

--Rob