[Zope] Help: Zope is extremely slow

[Andy McKay]

> the machine is linux/intel pentium 3, 700mhz, 512mb, scsi raid running
> kernel 2.2.14. this machine belongs to zope (&apache) and some legacy
> data importer. our ZODB is small (~3mb)  since all content is hosted
> in oracle, except for images which are served by apache anyway. we
> cache zsql queries quite extensively. currently the python process is
> about 30mb, i think i've seen it as big as 80mb though. the load avg.
> is typically around 0.1 - 0.3, ie. not much.

Cool thats similar configuration and a similar design to our site. Im upping
the number of threads as I type...

> (apart from the problem that our oracle context engine sucks a little,
> but thats another story :))

Im having similar problems with ZODBCA, but thats another problem... :)

Cheers, thanks for the advice!

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  Andy McKay