[Zope] My Way of Zope Programming

Ausum Studio ausum_studio@hotmail.com
Fri, 9 Aug 2002 13:57:07 -0500


You're right about caching, Jens.

Nonetheless I talked about the performance, considering every page
responding to a unique and personalized request. If there are workarounds to
cache that, I'll be happy to know about them.  :)


Ausum




> > I came up to the idea that for people wanting to use Zope for high
> > trafficked sites, and thus are looking for every bit of performance out
of
> > their web applications, ZPT would probably may not be a choice at all.
> >
> > I've recently tested Plone (the CMF skin built entirely of ZPTs) on a
> > Pentium IV @ 1.7GHZ plenty of memory, and generally speaking I had this
> > sensation that in despite of that horsepower, every page took a little
bit
> > of time to render while some pages took from half a second to two
seconds.
> > (DTML based pages, no matter how complicated they were, rendered almost
> > immediately ). Now, take that and multiply it for 20 or more simultaneus
> > hit
> > responses and you'll find out that you'll need more horsepower than the
> > average in order to provide a pleasant session for all the users.
>
> you'll find that you need *caching*. no large-scale application server can
> provide hundreds of hits a second without a good cache in front of it and
> without making sure that the rendered content carries the right caching
> headers.
>
>
> jens
>
>
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